Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Immermann

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

Pascal, Blaise

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Benjamin, Walter

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

11.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

13.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

14.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

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

16.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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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

18.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

20.

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

21.

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Proverb, French

24.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

25.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sappho

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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

Berry, Halle

32.

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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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

34.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Aristotle

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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 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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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

39.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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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

41.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

42.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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

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

Philips, Ambrose

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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage