Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Margaret Cho

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

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.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Shaw, George Bernard

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

10.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

12.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

15.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

16.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

17.

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

Pascal, Blaise

18.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

19.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

22.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

23.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

24.

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

25.

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

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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

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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

28.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

29.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

32.

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

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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

34.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

37.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

38.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

39.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

47.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Berry, Halle

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille