Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Immermann

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

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

Proverb, French

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

12.

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

Philips, Ambrose

13.

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

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 is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

18.

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

19.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

20.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

23.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

24.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

25.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

26.

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

27.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

28.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

29.

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

Anne Frank

30.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

31.

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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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)

33.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

34.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

35.

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

Proverb, Persian

36.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

41.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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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 ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

46.

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

Benjamin, Walter

49.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Ruskin, John