Quotes About Purity

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.

Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

I admire natural, untouched beauty.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

threefold purity—no big deal about the doer, no big deal about the action, no big deal about the result. This joyful exertion is rooted in no expectation, no ambition, no hope of fruition.

Remain pure, not in order to be noble or strong but to be yourself. To give your love is to lose love. Abdicate from life so as not to abdicate from yourself.

Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.