Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Spenser, Edmund

Best Quotes about Beauty

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

10.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

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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

15.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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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

20.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

25.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

26.

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

Margaret Cho

27.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

28.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

29.

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

Scott Westerfeld

30.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

31.

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

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

34.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

35.

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

Kotomichi

36.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

42.

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

Aristotle

43.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

44.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

45.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

49.

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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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