Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. (1 Peter 3:3-4)
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
Could I come near your beauty with my nails I’d set my ten commandments in your face. (Henry VI)
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying.
My beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is not bought by judgement of the eye. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)
How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! How many courtiers, how many slaves, have submitted to it! But alas! Why must it be that what flatters our senses almost always deceives our souls?
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Beauty’s a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish’d once, for ever’s lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost. (The Passionate Pilgrim)
Beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
