Matthew Prior Quotes

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

I am a thing of beauty.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.