Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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

Augustine, St.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

10.

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

11.

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

Sappho

12.

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

13.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Berry, Halle

15.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

16.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

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

Banks, Tyra

18.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

19.

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

Kraus, Karl

20.

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

O'Hara, Frank

21.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Dante Alighieri

26.

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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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Klee, Paul

28.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

30.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

31.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

32.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

33.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

34.

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

35.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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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

37.

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

Kotomichi

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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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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

40.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

41.

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

42.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

43.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

45.

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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