Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

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Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Proverb, French

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Philips, Ambrose

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Spenser, Edmund

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

11.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

16.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Proverb, Persian

22.

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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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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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 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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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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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 beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

32.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

34.

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

Banks, Tyra

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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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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Berry, Halle

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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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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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 short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.