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

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

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

Philips, Ambrose

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

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

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

10.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

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Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Augustine, St.

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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bejar, Hada

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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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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

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

Sappho

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

45.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Benjamin, Walter

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar