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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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

Eliot, George

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

10.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

11.

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

12.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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 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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Persian

25.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

26.

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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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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Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

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

Philips, Ambrose

30.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

31.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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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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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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

40.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

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

Margaret Cho

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

Sappho