Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

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

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

10.

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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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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

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

Berry, Halle

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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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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Bejar, Hada

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

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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 itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 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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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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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 variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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 worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.