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

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

Banks, Tyra

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Anne Frank

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

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 a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Proverb, French

10.

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

11.

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

Margaret Cho

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

14.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

15.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

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

20.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

21.

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

Sappho

22.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

32.

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

33.

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

Benjamin, Walter

34.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

35.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

37.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

40.

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

41.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

42.

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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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

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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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

Louie Schwartzberg

46.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

47.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

49.

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

Kotomichi