Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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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Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Sontag, Susan

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Kotomichi

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

Ann Radcliffe

10.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

11.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Augustine, St.

17.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Prager, Emily

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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 always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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 is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

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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

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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