Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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

Kotomichi

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

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

Sontag, Susan

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

10.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

11.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

12.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

13.

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

Proverb, Persian

14.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

15.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

16.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

17.

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

Berry, Halle

18.

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

Keats, John

19.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

21.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

23.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Quincey, Thomas De

25.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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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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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 in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

33.

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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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

35.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Anne Frank

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

Morley, Christopher

40.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

43.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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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.

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates