Quotes about Beauty
As I got closer to it, it got brighter and brighter. It wasn't like any light I could describe to you. It was beautiful.
- James Garlow
If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and glory of God in our own redemption, we will not be able to offer a compelling redemptive vision for those who are hopeless and who doubt God's love for them.
- James MacDonald
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
- Dorothy Sayers
We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.
- Dorothy Sayers
In my day one had to have either brains or beauty to get on -- preferably both. Nowadays nothing seems to be required but a total lack of figure.
- Dorothy Sayers
so interesting and a really remarkable face, though perhaps not strictly good-looking, and all the more interesting for that, because good-looking people are so often cows.
- Dorothy Sayers
Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is: it is so inestimable a jewel that, if a tyrant would give his crown for an hour's slumber, it cannot be bought: of so beautiful a shape is it, that though a man lie with an Empress, his heart cannot beat quite till he leaves her embracements to be at rest with the other: yea, so greatly indebted are we to this
- Dorothy Sayers
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
- Dorothy West
We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?
- Alain de Botton
As long as I can be physically healthy, I don't mind being curvy.
- Huda Kattan
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
- William Wordsworth
He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals.
- Beth Ostrosky Stern