Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Philips, Ambrose

11.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

12.

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

13.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

14.

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

15.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

16.

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

17.

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

19.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

20.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

21.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

22.

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

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

Kotomichi

25.

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

Andre, Father

26.

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

Margaret Cho

27.

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

28.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

29.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

30.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

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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People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

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

Proverb, French

34.

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

Keats, John

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

Anne Frank

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

37.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

41.

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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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

43.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

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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

46.

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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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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

Huxley, Aldous

49.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von