Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Keats, John

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

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

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

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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

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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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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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

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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Margaret Cho

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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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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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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?