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

Hubbard, Kin

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Margaret Cho

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

Immermann

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

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

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Banks, Tyra

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

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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.

18.

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

Aristotle

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

21.

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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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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

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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

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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

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Howard, Vernon

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dante Alighieri

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

33.

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

O'Hara, Frank

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

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

Anne Frank

41.

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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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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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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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