Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Margaret Cho

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

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

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

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

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

12.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

14.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

15.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

16.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

18.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

19.

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

Prager, Emily

20.

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

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

23.

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

Banks, Tyra

24.

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

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Berry, Halle

28.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

29.

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

30.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

31.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

32.

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

Huxley, Aldous

33.

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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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Sappho

37.

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

39.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

44.

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

45.

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

Hubbard, Kin

46.

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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

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.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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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