Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Sappho

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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

Anne Frank

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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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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Benjamin, Walter

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Beauty is not caused. It is.