Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Sappho

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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 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

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

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

Proverb, French

14.

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

Pascal, Blaise

15.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

16.

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

Margaret Cho

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

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

19.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

20.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Klee, Paul

23.

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

Sappho

24.

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

Philips, Ambrose

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

32.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

33.

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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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

35.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

37.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

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

Bejar, Hada

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

41.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

42.

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

44.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

47.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

49.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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

Marlowe, Christopher