Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Eye contact is the best accessory.

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

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

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

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

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

11.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

12.

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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What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

14.

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

Bejar, Hada

15.

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

16.

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

Anne Frank

17.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

18.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

19.

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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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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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

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

24.

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

Anouilh, Jean

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

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

Scott Westerfeld

27.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

28.

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

Kotomichi

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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

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

34.

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

Immermann

35.

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

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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

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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

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

40.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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 eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Persian

48.

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

49.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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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