Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- L'Enclos, Ninon De

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Benjamin, Walter

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Kotomichi

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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 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

15.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Proverb, French

17.

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

Anne Frank

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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 whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Keats, John

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Prager, Emily

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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

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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

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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 rests on necessities.