Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kotomichi

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

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

Keats, John

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

10.

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

11.

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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

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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

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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.

Teena Booth

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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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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

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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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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

24.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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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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

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

31.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

32.

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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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

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

40.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

43.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Aristotle

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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 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

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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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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