Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Dante Alighieri

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

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Benjamin, Walter

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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

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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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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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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Proverb, French

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

27.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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?

Jean Kerr

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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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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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich