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

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

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

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

Immermann

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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 essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Dante Alighieri

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

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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

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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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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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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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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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

Philips, Ambrose