Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

- SeVigne, Marquise De

Best Quotes about Beauty

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)

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Keats, John

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

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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

Quincey, Thomas De

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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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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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

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

19.

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

Prager, Emily

20.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

21.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb, French

31.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Banks, Tyra

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Berry, Halle

43.

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

44.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

48.

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

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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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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