Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Brown, Helen Gurley

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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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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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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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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

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Berry, Halle

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

Andre, Father

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

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

Banks, Tyra

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Anne Frank

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Spenser, Edmund

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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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.