Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Morley, Christopher

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 plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Sontag, Susan

12.

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

Bejar, Hada

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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

14.

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

Keats, John

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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

17.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

21.

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

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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

26.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Augustine, St.

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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

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

Lubbock, Sir John

30.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

33.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

34.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Anne Frank

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prager, Emily

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Berry, Halle

42.

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

Sappho

43.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

44.

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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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

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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

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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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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

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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

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