Quotes About Beauty

Aye." Malice gleamed in Maggy's yellow eyes. "Queen you shall be … until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.

And the mystery knight should win the tourney, defeating every challenger, and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty." "She was," said Meera, "but that's a sadder story." "Are you certain you never heard this tale before, Bran?" asked Jojen. "Your lord father never told it to you?

Many called her beautiful. She was not beautiful. She was red, and terrible and red.

Was there ever a man as beautiful or as vile as this one?

Bright, shining, and empty, Sansa thought.

Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now.

Those of the upper class began to look around for ways to get darker. It became the fashion for them to spend hours at the seashore basking naked in the sunshine and then to dash back, heavily bronzed, to their homes, and, preening themselves in their dusky skins, lord it over their paler, and thus less fortunate, associates. Beauty shops began to sell face powders named Poudre Nègre, Poudre le Egyptienne and L'Afrique.

skin stain that would impart a long-wearing light-brown tinge to the pigment.

Negroes around them enviously admired their clear white skins.

but hardly a customer had crossed her threshold in a fortnight, except two or three Jewish girls from downtown who came up regularly to have their hair straightened because it wouldn't stand inspection in the Nordic world.

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.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Love yourself! It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out!

The earth has its music for those who will listen.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not made for friendship: common interests are not strong enough, private interests too absorbing. In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

La belleza, según la sentimos, es algo indescriptible; jamás puede decirse lo que es ni lo que significa.

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

Only then (nearly out the door, so to speak) did I realize how unspeakably beautiful all of this was, how precisely engineered for our pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime thing.