Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- O'Hara, Frank

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Morley, Christopher

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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)

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

Anne Frank

10.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

11.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

12.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

13.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

14.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Teale, Edwin Way

19.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

20.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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.

24.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

25.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

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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 seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

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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

30.

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

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

32.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

33.

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 rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

36.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Paz, Octavio

39.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

41.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Benjamin, Walter

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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Philips, Ambrose

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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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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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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