Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

- Greville, Lord

Best Quotes about Beauty

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

11.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

13.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

14.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

17.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

18.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

19.

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

21.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

22.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

23.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Nathan, Robert

24.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

25.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

27.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

28.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

29.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

30.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

31.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

32.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

33.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

34.

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

35.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

36.

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

38.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

40.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

41.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

42.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

43.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

44.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

46.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

47.

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

48.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.