Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

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

Klee, Paul

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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

Spenser, Edmund

11.

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

Sappho

12.

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

13.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

14.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

15.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

20.

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.

21.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

23.

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

24.

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

Benjamin, Walter

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

28.

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

29.

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

30.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Paz, Octavio

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Dante Alighieri

38.

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

Keats, John

40.

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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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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

Berry, Halle

43.

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

44.

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

Huxley, Aldous

45.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

46.

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

Anne Frank

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.