Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

- Petrarch

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Spenser, Edmund

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Keats, John

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

11.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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

Margaret Cho

13.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Anne Frank

15.

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

Scott Westerfeld

16.

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

17.

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

Dante Alighieri

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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

Berry, Halle

21.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

22.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

31.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

32.

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

Augustine, St.

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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

34.

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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

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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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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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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

41.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

42.

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

43.

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

Kotomichi

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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

46.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

47.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

48.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

50.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von