Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Banks, Tyra

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

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

Kotomichi

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

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

Morley, Christopher

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Prager, Emily

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

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Keats, John

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

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 always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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?

Kerr, Jean

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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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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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

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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 not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Anne Frank

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

Dante Alighieri

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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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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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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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

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

Eliot, George

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

Augustine, St.