Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Immermann

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

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.

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

Aristotle

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

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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

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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Spenser, Edmund

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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 composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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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

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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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

Berry, Halle

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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

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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?

Kerr, Jean

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

Sappho

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

Margaret Cho

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

39.

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 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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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

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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 words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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

Prager, Emily

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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

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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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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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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

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch