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

1.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

2.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

3.

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.

4.

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

Dante Alighieri

5.

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

6.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

7.

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

8.

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

Margaret Cho

9.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

10.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

11.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

12.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

13.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

15.

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

16.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

17.

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

Berry, Halle

18.

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

Ruskin, John

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Bejar, Hada

23.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

26.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

30.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

31.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Morley, Christopher

35.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

36.

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)

37.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

38.

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

Picasso, Pablo

39.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

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

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

43.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

44.

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

45.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

46.

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

47.

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

Sappho

48.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

49.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

50.

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