Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Spenser, Edmund

Best Quotes about 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

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Proverb, French

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

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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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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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 ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

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Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Keats, John

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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 absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sappho

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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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Philips, Ambrose

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anne Frank

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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

Spenser, Edmund

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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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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Banks, Tyra

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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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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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