Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

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

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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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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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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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

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

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People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

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

Aristotle

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

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

Berry, Halle

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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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 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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

38.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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

44.

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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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

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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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