Motivational Quotes

Beauty

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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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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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

17.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Morley, Christopher

20.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

21.

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 is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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 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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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

28.

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

Ann Radcliffe

29.

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

Dante Alighieri

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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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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

34.

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

Berry, Halle

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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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

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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

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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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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Mumford, Lewis

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

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There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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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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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