Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

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

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Spenser, Edmund

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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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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 is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Aristotle

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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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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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People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

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

Sappho

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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.

Dickinson, Emily

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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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?

Jean Kerr

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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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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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