Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

- Porter, Katherine Anne

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Keats, John

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Eliot, George

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 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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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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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

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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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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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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

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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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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

36.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Andre, Father

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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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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Berry, Halle

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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 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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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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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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.