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

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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

Berry, Halle

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

10.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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

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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

19.

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 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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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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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Margaret Cho

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Scott Westerfeld

25.

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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

27.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

28.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

29.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Banks, Tyra

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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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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 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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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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