Motivational Quotes

Beauty

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Sontag, Susan

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Prager, Emily

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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

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

Banks, Tyra

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 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 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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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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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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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Ray, John

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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

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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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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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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

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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

Sappho

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.