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

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

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Keats, John

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

10.

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

11.

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

12.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

13.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

17.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

21.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

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

O'Hara, Frank

24.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

25.

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

26.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

27.

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

Banks, Tyra

28.

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

29.

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

Kraus, Karl

30.

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

Berry, Halle

31.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

32.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

33.

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

34.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

36.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Prager, Emily

41.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

42.

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

43.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

44.

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

45.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

46.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

47.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

48.

How goodness heightens beauty!