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Quotes About Beauty

That's beautiful,' Valkyrie said, looking at it. Isn't it? This necklace has cost two very fine men their lives. At times, I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt.
~ Derek Landy
How have you been? You're still as beautiful as ever." "As are you, my dear. I love your shoes." "Aren't they delightful? I saw them and just had to have them. Their previous owner wasn't too keen to let them go, but I can be very persuasive when I want to be." "Is that her blood on the left one?" "And no amount of scrubbing will get it out, either.
~ Derek Landy
Gracious ignored him. "A farmer's daughter, she was, though back then every girl was a farmer's daughter. Or a farmer. She had long hair like rope, and a nose. All her eyes were blue and she had a smile like a radiant hole in the ground, with teeth. God, she was beautiful." "She sounds terrifying," said Donegan. "Hush, you. I will hear no bad word spoken of your sister.
~ Derek Landy
Valkyrie smiled patiently. "I like how you do your make-up. Do you use a brush, or just dip your head in the bucket?
~ Derek Landy
She's starved herself to conform to the male perception of what makes a woman beautiful. I didn't need to do that. I was comfortable in myself and that's what made me beautiful. I didn't need male approval." "Uh, neither does Kelly. She's a lesbian.
~ Derek Landy
You're late," he said. "I'm beautiful." "You're always beautiful." "I'm always late, too.
~ Derek Landy
Just because someone is ugly on the outside doesn't mean they're not even uglier on the inside. The reverse is also true for the beautiful.
~ Derek Landy
Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.
~ Govindappa Venkataswamy
An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness
~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
~ Teresa of Avila
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.
~ Mark Twain
No one knows the colour of a flower till it is broken.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
~ Aristotle
Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.
~ William Cowper
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
~ Joseph Addison
The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.
~ Anita Baker
When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.
~ Jit Sharma
When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?
~ Larry Kramer, Faggots
Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't
~ Nicolas Steno
In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson