Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Spenser, Edmund

Best Quotes about Beauty

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sappho

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

11.

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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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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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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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

19.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

20.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

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

26.

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

Scott Westerfeld

27.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

29.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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

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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

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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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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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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 variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

43.

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

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.