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Quotes About Beauty

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
The secret of the charm of the lotus is that none can say wherin its beauty lies; for some say this, and some say that, but all agree that it is beautiful. And so indeed it is with woman.
~ Talbot Mundy
All that beauty . . . and Daggrepont, ugliness personified, a fat, grotesque pouch of greed, avarice shining in his magnified eyes . . .
~ Tami Hoag
Vi?u sav? zi?? nomierin?ja atrašan?s šaj?, lielaj?, drošaj?, skaistaj? ?k?, kura bija pilna ar to, kas vi?am patika, - ar gr?mat?m. Vi?u iesk?va zin?šanas, gudr?ba, saj?sma, nosl?pumi, kas pieder?ja vi?am par niec?gu cenu- prasmi las?t v?rdus.
~ Tami Hoag
I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
~ Tamora Pierce
Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.
~ Tamora Pierce
She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz
~ Tamora Pierce
And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.
~ Tamora Pierce
Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as a rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands.
~ Tamora Pierce
Usually, she liked to be big and strong, it helped her to handle iron, brass and bronze. Still, now and then she wanted a little elegance...
~ Tamora Pierce
When God designed the Marquesas... he must have been high.
~ Tania Aebi
It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.
~ Tanith Lee
Azhrarn the Beautiful, said Chuz lovingly, it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.
~ Tanith Lee
I loved him, just for a minute. I loved him and I grieved for him and my pity was part of the beauty, before the shame began.
~ Tanith Lee
In the late summer afternoon, the river lay thin and shallow among its smooth stones.
~ Tanith Lee
Israbel smiled once more. It was difficult to take your gaze away from her mouth - unless you looked into her eyes; and then you could only look at those... (Israbel)
~ Tanith Lee
Having told of so much beauty, how is it possible to tell of her? There are no words left on the earth in any tongue that will do. Such words vanished from the world when it shook itself free from the ocean of chaos, in a cataclysm that reshaped it like one of the balls small children throw in the air at play.
~ Tanith Lee
Iuletta's delicate pallor whitened. Her eyes became the shade of the purple core of a peacock's feather. She was extraordinary, and for an instant, Cornelia fell back from her aghast at this unconscionsciable loveliness.
~ Tanith Lee
If the watchers in the city had remarked that Cyrion was as handsome as the Arch-Demon himself, they would not have been the first to do so.
~ Tanith Lee
Romulan laughed, showing teeth as beautiful as the rest of him.
~ Tanith Lee
Why is it," cried the young woman in obvious chagrin, "everyone believes a plain girl will leap at the first man who wants her?
~ Tanith Lee
He had a hard face, tanned but sallow, wings of black hair beneath a shaved crown, and a collar of swarthy gold set with gems. But his gaze also clung on Cyrion. It like a lover's look. Or the starving lion as it beholds the deer.
~ Tanith Lee
An admirer of female beauty, if not essentially snared by it, he feasted briefly on two smouldering blue coals of eyes, fringed by coal-black lashes. Romulan's eyes, for that matter, and also for that matter, fixed upon Romulan.
~ Tanith Lee
Sana Vera!" she murmured as he came forward, "but he's beautiful. More beautiful than you, you wretch." "So he is, and restrain your paws from him. His noble father wishes him kept virgin till the marriage night.
~ Tanith Lee