Motivational Quotes

Beauty

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

- Kotomichi

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Morley, Christopher

10.

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

Anne Frank

11.

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

12.

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)

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

19.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

20.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

21.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

23.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

24.

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

Ann Radcliffe

25.

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

26.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

27.

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

Margaret Cho

28.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

29.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

30.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

37.

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

38.

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

Bejar, Hada

40.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

41.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

42.

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

Prager, Emily

43.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

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

Andre, Father

45.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

46.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

47.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

48.

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

49.

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

Spenser, Edmund

50.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis