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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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'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

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

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

Kerr, Jean

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

Ann Radcliffe

11.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

12.

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

Anouilh, Jean

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

17.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

19.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

20.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

21.

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

22.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

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

24.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

25.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

26.

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

27.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

28.

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

29.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

30.

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

Kotomichi

31.

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

Sappho

32.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

33.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

34.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

35.

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

O'Hara, Frank

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

39.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

40.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

42.

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

43.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

44.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

46.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

48.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.