Herbert Spencer Quotes

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

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Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

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

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.

It may sound cliché, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

Our flaws are what make us perfect.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.