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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Keats, John

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

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

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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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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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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 in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Immermann

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

Philips, Ambrose

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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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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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 rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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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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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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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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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, French

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

Prager, Emily

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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

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von