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

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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

19.

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 can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Ruskin, John

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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

Proverb, French

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

Sappho

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Bejar, Hada

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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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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

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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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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Kotomichi

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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