Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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 and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

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

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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.

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

11.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

12.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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 itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

19.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

20.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

21.

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

Berry, Halle

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

Philips, Ambrose

24.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

25.

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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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

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

29.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Spenser, Edmund

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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

33.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

37.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

39.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

40.

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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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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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

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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

45.

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

Bejar, Hada

46.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

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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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 essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil