Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Keats, John

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Eliot, George

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.

Bataille, Georges

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

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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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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

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

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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

15.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

18.

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

19.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

21.

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

Augustine, St.

22.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

23.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

24.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

25.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

26.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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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.

28.

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

32.

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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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

34.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

42.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

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

Philips, Ambrose

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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.