Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Berry, Halle

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Proverb, French

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

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

Keats, John

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Paz, Octavio

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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 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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bejar, Hada

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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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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 always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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

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

O'Hara, Frank

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Anne Frank

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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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 can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.

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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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