Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

- Havelock Ellis

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Baudelaire, Charles

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Hubbard, Kin

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Sappho

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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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

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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

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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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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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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bejar, Hada

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Immermann

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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

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

Margaret Cho

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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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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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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus