Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

11.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

13.

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

Paz, Octavio

14.

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

15.

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

Proverb, French

16.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

17.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

18.

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

19.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

22.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

23.

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

Ruskin, John

24.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

25.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

26.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

28.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

29.

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

Klee, Paul

30.

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

31.

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

Keats, John

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

35.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

36.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

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

38.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

39.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

40.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

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

42.

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

Ann Radcliffe

43.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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.