Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

- Havelock Ellis

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Klee, Paul

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

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

10.

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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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Jean Kerr

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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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

20.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

25.

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

Anne Frank

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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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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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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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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Augustine, St.

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

Berry, Halle

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Sappho

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Banks, Tyra

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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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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English