Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

1.

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

2.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

3.

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

Philips, Ambrose

4.

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

5.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

6.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

7.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

8.

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

9.

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

10.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

11.

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

Benjamin, Walter

12.

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

Bejar, Hada

13.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

14.

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

Spenser, Edmund

15.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

16.

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

17.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

18.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

19.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

Picasso, Pablo

23.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

26.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

27.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

28.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

29.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

33.

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

34.

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

Kraus, Karl

35.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

36.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

38.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

39.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

40.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

41.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

42.

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

43.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

44.

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.

45.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

46.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?