Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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.

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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Keats, John

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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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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Banks, Tyra

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Philips, Ambrose

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Prager, Emily

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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb, French

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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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