Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Immermann

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Howard, Vernon

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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

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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Aristotle

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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 everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Prager, Emily

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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Sappho

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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.