Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Sappho

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Margaret Cho

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

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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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

15.

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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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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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Prager, Emily

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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Spenser, Edmund

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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

31.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

40.

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 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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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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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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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Philips, Ambrose