Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Dante Alighieri

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

10.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

13.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

14.

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

Keats, John

15.

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

16.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

O'Hara, Frank

18.

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

19.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

21.

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

Ann Radcliffe

22.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

Prager, Emily

24.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, French

29.

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

Scott Westerfeld

30.

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

Morley, Christopher

31.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

32.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

Proverb, Persian

34.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

35.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

36.

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

Banks, Tyra

37.

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

Anouilh, Jean

38.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

39.

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

40.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

48.

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

49.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

50.

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