Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

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

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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

Margaret Cho

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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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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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

O'Hara, Frank

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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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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

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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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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 average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

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

Berry, Halle

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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

28.

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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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 line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Tyra

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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

39.

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 rests on necessities.

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 the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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

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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles