Quotes About Beauty

He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Because what looks like crazy on an ordinary day can look like love howling if you see it in the moonlight.

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

Does peeing adversely affect makeup?

It's like the Léon Damas story about the black man on the bus who felt bad because the only other black man on the same bus was ugly and sweaty and dirty and ill-kempt. It is hard to express it. So sad.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

French is the most beautiful," he said, "and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved—

Well, and you may have lived in the courts of the Old Lord, and you were accounted beautiful, but I have been a man's wife and I have borne him sons, and you are still a slave.

You are an artist," she said. "But then all scientists are artists, my father used to say. You think like an artist, at any rate, and I can see that you want what you create to be a work of art.

With increasing passion she loved beauty, for beauty, she told herself, and only beauty, was pure and good and worthy of her love.

Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, She is heaven-good. They meant that her goodness was natural and that it flowed from a fountain within herself.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused. …

IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

Peter groaned loudly. Sonia Pan! She's ugly. Mris. Liang would not yield. Ugly girls can be fixed now. It is not like before. And she is very good. She does not waste money. It would be no use for her to waste money on herself, Louise murmured.

steadily for a few minutes because Leah was so beautiful. She looked at herself in the mirror on her dressing table, and it seemed to her that all

But I am fearful of it because I hear she is learned in the Four Books, and learning has never accompanied beauty in women.

she returned full of talk about the streets, wondering at sights which others would not notice and seeing beauty in strange places.

She shook her head. "I don't know one pretty young man from the other," she declared.

Like most garden lovers, he could never enjoy the perfection of the garden as much as he wished, because his overzealous eye saw always some imperfection, too minute to be noticed by a stranger.

Mais elle est ainsi, vivant en elle-même, voyant de la beauté où d'autres n'en trouvent point.

She smiled over a heap of flowered summery lawn she had in her lap and threaded her needle again with pink silk.

Pakdusan, Mount of Eternal Snow