Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Berry, Halle

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Ann Radcliffe

10.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

11.

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

Anne Frank

12.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

13.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

14.

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

Andre, Father

15.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

16.

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

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

19.

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

20.

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

Anouilh, Jean

21.

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

Bejar, Hada

22.

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

23.

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

Picasso, Pablo

24.

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

25.

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

26.

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

Sappho

27.

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Paz, Octavio

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Frye, Northrop

33.

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

34.

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

Prager, Emily

35.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

36.

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

Banks, Tyra

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Persian

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

43.

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

Huxley, Aldous

44.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

45.

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

46.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

47.

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

48.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sand, George

49.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

50.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar