Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anne Frank

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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)

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Prager, Emily

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Andre, Father

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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

29.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

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

Klee, Paul

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Bejar, Hada

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

40.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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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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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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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 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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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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Paz, Octavio