Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Quincey, Thomas De

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

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

Andre, Father

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Quincey, Thomas De

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

10.

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

Kraus, Karl

11.

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

12.

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

Margaret Cho

13.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

17.

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

18.

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

Kotomichi

19.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

20.

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

Augustine, St.

23.

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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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

25.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

26.

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

Keats, John

27.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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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

29.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

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

Morley, Christopher

34.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

35.

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.

36.

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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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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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

40.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

42.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.