Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

- Pearl Buck

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Keats, John

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb, French

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Immermann

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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

Kotomichi

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

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People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Anne Frank

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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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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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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

17.

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

Berry, Halle

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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Quincey, Thomas De

27.

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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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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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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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck