Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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

Immermann

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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)

14.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

15.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

16.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

17.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

18.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

19.

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

Spenser, Edmund

20.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

22.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

23.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

24.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

26.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

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

Howard, Vernon

29.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

30.

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

31.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

36.

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

Berry, Halle

37.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

38.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

39.

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

40.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

41.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

42.

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

Keats, John

43.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

47.

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

48.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

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

50.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre