Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Beauty

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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 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

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

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

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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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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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

O'Hara, Frank

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Prager, Emily

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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

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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Andre, Father

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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 one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Dante Alighieri

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Margaret Cho

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Aristotle

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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Spenser, Edmund

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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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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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