Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Beauty

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Berry, Halle

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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 plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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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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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Keats, John

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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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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Prager, Emily

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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

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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Aristotle

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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'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

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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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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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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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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

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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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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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