Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Ruskin, John

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

Margaret Cho

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

Keats, John

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

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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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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Proverb, French

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

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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 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 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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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