Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Klee, Paul

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

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

Immermann

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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 rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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

Banks, Tyra

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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Huxley, Aldous

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Proverb, French

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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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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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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

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

Augustine, St.

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

Morley, Christopher

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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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