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

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Keats, John

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

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

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

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

10.

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

11.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

12.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

16.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

17.

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

Augustine, St.

18.

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

Banks, Tyra

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Anouilh, Jean

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Morley, Christopher

26.

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)

27.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

29.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

30.

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

Bejar, Hada

31.

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

32.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

33.

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

34.

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

Kotomichi

35.

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

36.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

37.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

39.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

40.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

42.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

43.

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

44.

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

Ruskin, John

45.

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

46.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

47.

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

48.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

49.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.