Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

- Robbins, Tim

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

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

Aristotle

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

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

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

Anne Frank

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

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

Dante Alighieri

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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.

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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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

O'Hara, Frank

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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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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 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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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Prager, Emily

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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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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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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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 beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

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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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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De