Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Prager, Emily

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

10.

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

11.

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

Sappho

15.

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

Keats, John

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

Margaret Cho

18.

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.

19.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

23.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Augustine, St.

25.

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

Dante Alighieri

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

29.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

34.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

35.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

37.

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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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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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

40.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

41.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

42.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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 eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

46.

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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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre