Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Keats, John

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Augustine, St.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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

Baudelaire, Charles

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

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

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

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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

Immermann

13.

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

Sappho

14.

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

Eliot, George

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

18.

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

19.

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

Hubbard, Kin

20.

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

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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

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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

24.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

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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

29.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

30.

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.

31.

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.

32.

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

O'Hara, Frank

33.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

36.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

42.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Arnim, Mary

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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

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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 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 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

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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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