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Quotes About Loveliness

She is rich in beauty.
~ William Shakespeare
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.
~ Herman Melville
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
~ Bayard Taylor
Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.
~ Josephine Winslow Johnson
It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.
~ Thomas Moore
Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
~ Jonathan Edwards
A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.
~ Herman Melville
Melancholy, at first, no doubt, lends a certain attractive grace, but it ends by dragging the features and blighting the loveliest face.
~ Honore de Balzac
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.
~ Unknown
Being beautiful comes naturally!
~ Unknown
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
~ Unknown
I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness.
~ Philippa Gregory
No, you look like the beauty you are, and you know it. You have that gift, which our mother had, of growing older and becoming more lovely. Your features have changed from being merely those of a pretty girl to being those of a beautiful woman with a face like a carving. When you are laughing and dancing with Edward, you could pass for twenty, but when you are still and thoughtful, you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy. No wonder women loathe you.
~ Philippa Gregory
I found lines that mirrored an ache and longing I had so often felt when the beauty around my woods cathedral was too intense, when the need to grasp and keep loveliness left me with a sense of desolate frustration.
~ Irene Hunt
Everything in the garden was like that: lovely but impossible to enjoy properly, with that worrying feeling inside that they were only there through an odd stroke of luck, and the fear that they'd soon have to give an account of themselves.
~ Italo Calvino
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...
~ Kahlil Gibran
Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.
~ Luke Evans
swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.
~ Donna Tartt
melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.
~ Donna Tartt