Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Beauty

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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

Margaret Cho

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Augustine, St.

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

Immermann

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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

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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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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.

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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

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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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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

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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Arnim, Mary

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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Andre, Father

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.

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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

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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 eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

O'Hara, Frank

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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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