Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

- SeVigne, Marquise De

Best Quotes about Beauty

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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

Pascal, Blaise

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

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

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

11.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

12.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

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

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

16.

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

Bejar, Hada

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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

20.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

21.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

22.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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

Sappho

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

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

27.

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

Klee, Paul

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

29.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille

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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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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

32.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

33.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

34.

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

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

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

Proverb, Persian

37.

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

38.

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

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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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

44.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Keats, John

48.

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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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.