Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

- Stendhal, Henri B.

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Keats, John

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Scott Westerfeld

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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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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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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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 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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What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

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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)

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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 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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Proverb, French

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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

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

Augustine, St.

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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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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

42.

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

Anne Frank

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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

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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

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

Banks, Tyra

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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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