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

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Louie Schwartzberg

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

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

Aristotle

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

10.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

11.

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

Dante Alighieri

12.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

Anne Frank

15.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

16.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

18.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

19.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

20.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

26.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

27.

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

28.

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

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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

30.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

31.

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

Prager, Emily

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Margaret Cho

38.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

40.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Scott Westerfeld

44.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

45.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

46.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

47.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

48.

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

49.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

50.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster