Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

- Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Spenser, Edmund

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

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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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

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

Immermann

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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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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The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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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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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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aristotle

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

Margaret Cho

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

Banks, Tyra

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Marlowe, Christopher