Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is not caused. It is.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Sappho

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

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

Berry, Halle

10.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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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

17.

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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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

26.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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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

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

Banks, Tyra

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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 is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 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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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.