Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Teale, Edwin Way

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Keats, John

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

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

Augustine, St.

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

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Anne Frank

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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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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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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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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

18.

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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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Banks, Tyra

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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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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

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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 ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Nathan, Robert

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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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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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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

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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