Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

- Petrarch

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Dante Alighieri

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Aristotle

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

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

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

Immermann

10.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

11.

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

Howard, Vernon

12.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

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

14.

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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

22.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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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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

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

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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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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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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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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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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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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

35.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

36.

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

Andre, Father

37.

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

38.

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 desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

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

Berry, Halle

41.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Klee, Paul

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, French

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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)