#beau

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cannot #dangerous #examined #light #mortal

When you are old, at evening candle-lit beside the fire bending to your wool, read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ this praise for me when I was beautiful." And not a maid but, at the sound of it, though nodding at the stitch on broidered stool, will start awake, and bless love's benefit whose long fidelities bring Time to school. I shall be thin and ghost beneath the earth by myrtle shade in quiet after pain, but you, a crone, will crouch beside the hearth mourning my love and all your proud disdain. And since what comes to-morrow who can say? Live, pluck the roses of the world to-day. ↗

— Pierre de Ronsard

#helene #love #beauty

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. ↗

— Washington Irving

#beauty #been #charms #deficient #divinity

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside. ↗

— LL Cool J

#beautiful thing #best #black #could #deep

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#beauty #boots #dancing #day #did

I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. ↗

— Joshua Jackson

#beautiful women #creatures #ever #god #i

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#beautiful #crazy #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #gorgeous

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#beauty #find #i #i always #imperfect

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#air #beauty #been #between #blocks

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them. ↗

— Judith Jamison

#come #dance #give #i #people