Inspirational Quotes on Beauty

“Beauty without virtue is like a flower without fragrance.”

“For, on the other hand, he who in chaste love looks on beauty, thinks not that the flesh is beautiful, but the spirit, admiring, as I judge, the body as an image, by whose beauty he transports himself to the Artist, and to the true beauty[.]”

“Whatever marvel happens in this world, it is certainly less marvellous than this whole world itself — I mean the sky and earth, and all that is in them — and these God certainly made. But, as the Creator Himself is hidden and incomprehensible to man, so also is the manner of creation. Although, therefore, the standing miracle of this visible world is little thought of, because always before us, yet, when we arouse ourselves to contemplate it, it is a greater miracle than the rarest and most unheard-of marvels.”

“Imagination decides everything: it creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the world's supreme good.”

“Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.”

“Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought Beauty too golden to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.”

“Most hidden, yet most present.”

“Life is good even in sorrow, it’s good to live in the world, no matter how.”

“She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age, We may add in parenthesis that to preserve all of this is the only means of retaining beauty in old age”

“Beauty is a terrifying and a horrible thing! It's terrifying because it can't be defined, and it can't be defined because God has set nothing but riddles.”

“But there was something in her higher than what surrounded her. There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations.”

“Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.”