Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

- Pearl Buck

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Banks, Tyra

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

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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

O'Hara, Frank

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

10.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Anne Frank

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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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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.

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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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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

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, French

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

Sappho

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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

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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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

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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

Ruskin, John

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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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

34.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

43.

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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Andre, Father

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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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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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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim