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

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Proverb, French

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

10.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

11.

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

Bejar, Hada

12.

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

Spenser, Edmund

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

14.

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

Pascal, Blaise

16.

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

Prager, Emily

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

18.

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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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

20.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Eliot, George

22.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Augustine, St.

25.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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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

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

Louie Schwartzberg

28.

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

29.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

30.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

31.

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.

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

33.

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

34.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Kotomichi

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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

37.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

38.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

39.

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

40.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Scott Westerfeld

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

46.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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

49.

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 our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille