Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Beauty

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Berry, Halle

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 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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

10.

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

11.

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

Sackville-West, Vita

12.

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

13.

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

14.

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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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

16.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

17.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Spenser, Edmund

20.

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

21.

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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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

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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 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

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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

28.

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

29.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sappho

31.

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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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

33.

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

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Keats, John

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

Paz, Octavio

38.

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

Augustine, St.

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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 in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, French

43.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

44.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

45.

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

46.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

47.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Kraus, Karl