Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Marlowe, Christopher

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Prager, Emily

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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

11.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

18.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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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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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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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

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

Bejar, Hada

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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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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Howard, Vernon

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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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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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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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