Quotes about Beauty

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.

Or, donner la grosse cloche en mariage à Quasimodo, c'était donner Juliette à Roméo.

The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.

exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.

He fell to the seat, she by his side. There no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was it that their lips met? How is it that the birds sing, the the snow melts, that the rose opens, that May blooms, that the dawn whitens behind the black trees on the shivering summit of the hills?

Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes.

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.

War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.

It was like a hand which had opened and thrown suddenly upon her a handful of sunbeams.

In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.

His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.