Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Klee, Paul

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

Augustine, St.

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

Dante Alighieri

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Anne Frank

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Prager, Emily

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Aristotle

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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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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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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

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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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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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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

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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 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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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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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Eliot, George

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

Keats, John

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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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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