Motivational Quotes

Beauty

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Beauty

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

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

Spenser, Edmund

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

O'Hara, Frank

10.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

11.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

12.

People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

13.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

15.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

16.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

19.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

20.

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

Margaret Cho

21.

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

22.

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

Morley, Christopher

23.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

24.

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

Kraus, Karl

25.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

Keats, John

27.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

29.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

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

31.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

32.

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

33.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

34.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

35.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

36.

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

Banks, Tyra

37.

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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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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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

40.

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

Kotomichi

41.

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

42.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

43.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

44.

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

45.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

48.

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

Scott Westerfeld

49.

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