Motivational Quotes

Beauty

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

- SeVigne, Marquise De

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Immermann

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sappho

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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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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 always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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

Prager, Emily

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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

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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Spenser, Edmund

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Augustine, St.

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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 in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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 is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

Klee, Paul