Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Margaret Cho

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Prager, Emily

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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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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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