Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Prager, Emily

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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)

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Immermann

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

Banks, Tyra

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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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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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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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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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Anne Frank

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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 unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

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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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Spenser, Edmund

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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sappho

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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Scott Westerfeld

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

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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