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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Andre, Father

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

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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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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Wilde, Oscar

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

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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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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

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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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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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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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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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

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Philips, Ambrose

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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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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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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 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 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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Paglia, Camille

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Immermann

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