Quotes about Beauty
Over the inter glaciers, I see the summer glow, And, through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
— Catherine of Siena
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A flower, no matter how beautiful, still has to grow in dirt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A smile is the most beautiful thing you can wear.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
— Emily Bronte
The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.
— William Faulkner
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
— William Hazlitt
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
— William Hazlitt
Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.
— William Hazlitt