Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Beauty

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Prager, Emily

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Augustine, St.

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

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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 will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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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

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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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

Anne Frank

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aristotle

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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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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. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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)

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, 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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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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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Berry, Halle

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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

39.

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

Andre, Father

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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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Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

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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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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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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

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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 a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

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

Spenser, Edmund