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

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 words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

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

Prager, Emily

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Keats, John

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

Augustine, St.

14.

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

Spenser, Edmund

15.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

16.

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

Scott Westerfeld

17.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

28.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

29.

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

30.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

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

Immermann

33.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

34.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

35.

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

36.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

40.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

43.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

44.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

45.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

46.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

48.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

49.

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

50.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell