Motivational Quotes

Beauty

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Sappho

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

Kotomichi

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

11.

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

Bejar, Hada

12.

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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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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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

15.

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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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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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Marlowe, Christopher

20.

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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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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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

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

25.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

26.

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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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 essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

29.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

31.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

32.

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

33.

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

37.

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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

40.

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

Anne Frank

41.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

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

Anouilh, Jean

43.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Prager, Emily

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

48.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

49.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

50.

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