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

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

Anne Frank

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

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

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Berry, Halle

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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 is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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

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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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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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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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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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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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 average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

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

Spenser, Edmund

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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

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

Banks, Tyra

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What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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 the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.