Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Banks, Tyra

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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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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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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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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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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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

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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

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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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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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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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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 our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille

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

Immermann

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Anne Frank