Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Beauty

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

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

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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

Huxley, Aldous

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Berry, Halle

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Andre, Father

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.