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

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Baudelaire, Charles

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Philips, Ambrose

10.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

11.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

12.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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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 ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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

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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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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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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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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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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

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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?

Jean Kerr

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.