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 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

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

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

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.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

16.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

20.

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

26.

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

O'Hara, Frank

27.

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

Berry, Halle

28.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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

31.

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

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

33.

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Banks, Tyra

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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

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

Andre, Father

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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?

Jean Kerr

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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

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

Keats, John

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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

Paz, Octavio

44.

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

Kotomichi

45.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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