Quotes About Beauty

When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, "You know how it is; one tries to make one's Mummy just as nice as he can." When God became Man, He too, I believe, would make His Mother as nice as He could—and that would make her a perfect Mother.

Si vous parcouriez la France, que de merveilles vous admireriez dans l'industrie des hommes, à côté des beautés de la nature!

Life is like a rose. A few thorns don't make it any less beautiful.

No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind.

He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic . . . muscular.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

Darling, everyone is beautiful in her own way, and I am a fairy.

Your mother was beautiful." His voice was regretful. "I'm sorry she's dead.

I'd anticipated insults before they came. I'd avoided looking in actual mirrors, but I'd gazed constantly in the mirror in my mind and always hated what I showed myself. I looked again in the real mirror in front of me. Dignified. Dignified and grand. I closed my eyes and saw myself again. Milk-white face, blood-red lips. Dignified and grand.

The air is fresher here. Rock walls rise on either side of me. They must be the bowl of the volcano.

May the sun smile sweetly. May the rain fall softly. May a breeze ruffle your hair. May your host receive you with charm. May your rest be calm. May you be glad wherever you are.

Tanned skin was also unacceptable, particularly in the South. "Remember…not to go out without your bonnet because it will make you very ugly and then we should not love you so much," wrote Thomas Jefferson, demonstrating once again that he could always find just the wrong thing to say to a devoted daughter.

not before it sets off soft pink shades in stucco and stones, turns the mountains from sun burnt orange to shadowed blue.

All beautiful, dangerous idols fall, I thought, if you keep your eye on them long enough.

The greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.

maybe there is no sublime; only the shining of the amnion's tatters.

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

I want to age the way that life makes you age, because there's beauty in autumn and winter and I think people forget that.

My hometown, first and foremost, it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. A beautiful lake town. It's one of those communities where, winter rolls around, it's exactly the same as any other small town in America. Sort of a lower socio-economic area. There isn't anything high-end necessarily anywhere around there.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.