Quotes About Beauty

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 we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Oh, if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is, how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.

The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.

The goose gabbles amid the melodious swans.

This is wisdom: to love wine, beauty, and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

To seek after beauty as an end, is a wild goose chase, a will-o'-the-wisp, because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty, which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet, I kiss her feet.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

If I am ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged but not until I get down to size eight.

When the heart of your heart opens, you can take deep pleasure in the company of the people around you . . . When you are open to the beauty, mystery, and grandeur of ordinary existence, you "get it" that it always has been beautiful, mysterious, and grand and always will be.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.