Quotes About Beauty

He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.

He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold;

to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.

Then the kingís attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,

and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the kingís eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.

And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.

In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the kingís palace.

And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?

His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

The lotus plants conceal him in their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.

I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.