Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Prager, Emily

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

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

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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

20.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

21.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

22.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

23.

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

Philips, Ambrose

24.

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

25.

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

Keats, John

26.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

27.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

28.

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

Jean Kerr

29.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

30.

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

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

Augustine, St.

33.

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

34.

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

Banks, Tyra

35.

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 eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

40.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Andre, Father

45.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

46.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

47.

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

Hubbard, Kin

48.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

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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