Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

- Mendelssohn, Felix

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Picasso, Pablo

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Proverb, French

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

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

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

10.

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

11.

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

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

14.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

20.

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

21.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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

Keats, John

27.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

30.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

31.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

32.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

36.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

37.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

38.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

40.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

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

Kraus, Karl

43.

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.

44.

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

Margaret Cho

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Sappho

50.

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

Augustine, St.