Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

12.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

13.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, French

15.

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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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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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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Halifax, Edward F.

20.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

22.

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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

31.

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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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

34.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

39.

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

O'Hara, Frank

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Banks, Tyra

44.

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

Dante Alighieri

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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Prager, Emily

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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