Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Marlowe, Christopher

Best Quotes about Beauty

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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

Louie Schwartzberg

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Berry, Halle

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

Aristotle

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Howard, Vernon

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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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

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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

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Bejar, Hada

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Margaret Cho

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Dante Alighieri

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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)

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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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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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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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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.

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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

Immermann

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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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