Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Prager, Emily

Best Quotes about Beauty

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Klee, Paul

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

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

Dante Alighieri

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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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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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

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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 in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Keats, John

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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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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

24.

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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

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

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

Andre, Father

32.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Morley, Christopher

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Nathan, Robert

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Banks, Tyra

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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.