Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Beauty

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 everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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 words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Bejar, Hada

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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 plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb, French

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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Shaw, George Bernard

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Prager, Emily

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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

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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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 in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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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

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