Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Jean Kerr

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

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

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

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Berry, Halle

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Dante Alighieri

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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

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

O'Hara, Frank

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

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

Banks, Tyra

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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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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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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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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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Prager, Emily

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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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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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Louie Schwartzberg