Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

- Louie Schwartzberg

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Berry, Halle

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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

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

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

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

Banks, Tyra

10.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

11.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

12.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

13.

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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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

16.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

17.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

18.

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

Morley, Christopher

19.

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

20.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

24.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

25.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb, French

28.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

29.

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

Benjamin, Walter

30.

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

31.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

32.

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

Immermann

33.

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

Keats, John

34.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

35.

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

Margaret Cho

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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

37.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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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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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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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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 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 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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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

45.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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 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

49.

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

Augustine, St.

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis