Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Sappho

Best Quotes about Beauty

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

10.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Persian

15.

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

Margaret Cho

16.

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

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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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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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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

20.

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

Bejar, Hada

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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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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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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

26.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

30.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

31.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

32.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

33.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

34.

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

35.

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

Klee, Paul

36.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

37.

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

Berry, Halle

38.

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

O'Hara, Frank

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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 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

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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

43.

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

Kotomichi

44.

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

45.

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

Proverb, French

46.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

47.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

48.

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.

49.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

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

Ann Radcliffe