Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

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

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.

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Banks, Tyra

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Beauty rests on necessities.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Bejar, Hada

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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 a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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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 in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord