Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- O'Hara, Frank

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Nathan, Robert

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benjamin, Walter

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

13.

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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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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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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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

18.

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

19.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

20.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

21.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

22.

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

Sappho

23.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

26.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

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

O'Hara, Frank

28.

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

L'Enclos, Ninon De

29.

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

Scott Westerfeld

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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

35.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

36.

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

Immermann

37.

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

Bejar, Hada

38.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

39.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

40.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

41.

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

Morley, Christopher

42.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Andre, Father

45.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

46.

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

47.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

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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

49.

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 plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.