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

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

Proverb, French

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

Augustine, St.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

10.

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

11.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

12.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

13.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

16.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

17.

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

Andre, Father

18.

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

19.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

20.

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

Berry, Halle

21.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Prager, Emily

23.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

24.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

25.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

Banks, Tyra

28.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

29.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

33.

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

O'Hara, Frank

34.

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.

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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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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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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

38.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

39.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

40.

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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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Arnim, Mary

42.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

43.

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

44.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

46.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

47.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

48.

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)

49.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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