Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Kotomichi

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

Anne Frank

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

11.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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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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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

25.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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 is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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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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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Banks, Tyra

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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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Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

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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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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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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 beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

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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

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Immermann

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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