Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Andre, Father

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

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.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Prager, Emily

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Proverb, French

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Banks, Tyra

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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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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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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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

29.

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

O'Hara, Frank

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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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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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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Howard, Vernon

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

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

Anne Frank

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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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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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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael