Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Beauty

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Keats, John

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

Berry, Halle

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

Huxley, Aldous

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Bejar, Hada

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

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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There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Dante Alighieri

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

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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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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

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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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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

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Prager, Emily

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