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

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

Louie Schwartzberg

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

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

Dante Alighieri

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

10.

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

11.

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

Morley, Christopher

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

13.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

15.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

17.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

18.

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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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

20.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

22.

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.

23.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

24.

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

Immermann

25.

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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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

27.

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

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

30.

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

31.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

Ann Radcliffe

34.

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

35.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

36.

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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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

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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

39.

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

Klee, Paul

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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.

44.

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

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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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

47.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

48.

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

Bejar, Hada

49.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

50.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John