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 whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, French

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

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

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Banks, Tyra

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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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Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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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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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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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