Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

- Mendelssohn, Felix

Best Quotes about Beauty

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Andre, Father

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Proverb, French

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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

Quincey, Thomas De

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

10.

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

Immermann

11.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

12.

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

Benjamin, Walter

13.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

14.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

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

Keats, John

17.

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

Prager, Emily

18.

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

19.

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

Eliot, George

20.

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

21.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

22.

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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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

24.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

25.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

26.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

27.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

28.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

29.

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

30.

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

Kotomichi

31.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

32.

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

Pascal, Blaise

33.

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

36.

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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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

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

41.

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

Anouilh, Jean

42.

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

Anne Frank

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

46.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

47.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.