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Quotes About Beauty

A flower's appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hydrangea — watercolor'd confetti-bursting flowery garden art
~ Terri Guillemets
a flower in a scrapbook dried as dry can be but beautiful in its colors a bookmark to eternity
~ Terri Guillemets
If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, perhaps your soul has never been in bloom.
~ Terri Guillemets
The strawberry... It is born of the copious dews, the fragrant nights, the tender skies, the plentiful rains of the early season. The singing of birds is in it, and the health and frolic of lusty Nature. It is the product of liquid May touched by the June sun. It has the tartness, the briskness, the unruliness of spring, and the aroma and intensity of summer.
~ John Burroughs
In every orchard Autumn stands, With apples in his golden hands.
~ Alexander Smith
The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
~ African-American proverb
Girl, n. A giggle with glitter on it.
~ Author Unknown
In the dark, glitter is nothing but sand.
~ Terri Guillemets
The butterfly upon the sky, who doesn't know its name, And hasn't any tax to pay, and hasn't any home, Is just as high as you and I, and higher, I believe – So soar away and never sigh, for that's the way to grieve.
~ Emily Dickinson
The security, stability, and firmness of the earth inspire those parts of my life that call for grounding. I give thanks to the earth for being the source of food, beauty, and my bones. I feel oneness with the rocks, the mountains, and Mother Earth...
~ Author Unknown
A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
~ Raymond Chandler
Her hair was the gold of gold paintings and had been fussed with just enough but not too much.
~ Raymond Chandler
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
~ Lily Tomlin
And beauty draws us with a single hair...
~ Alexander Pope
A man has gray hair; a poet has locks as silvery as long-lost treasure.
~ Terri Guillemets
What is joy? A sunbeam between two clouds.
~ Madame de Luzy
The sun heals. Laughter heals. Love, breathing, touch, beauty, Nature, warmth, kinship Heal, if you will let them Be part of your medicine.
~ Terri Guillemets
You have to be as relaxed as possible about food and fitness and the rest of it, or you'll be a slave to your beauty habits… you may have a great skin but you become a robot.
~ Audrey Hepburn, 1971
But my heart it is brighter Than all of the many Stars in the sky...
~ Edgar Allan Poe, "For Annie"
God! what a light has passed away from earth Since my last look!... How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone. The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
~ Alexander Smith, A Life-Drama
Love blooms petals, thorns, and nettles.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hope whispers from every hyacinth-bell...
~ Elizabeth Holmes, 1830
Horses — if God made any creature more beautiful, He kept it for himself.
~ Author Unknown