Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Heroes can be sweet.

I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.

Class does not mean huge possession of money. Mother Teresa was a classy woman. So is Manjula Bhargava, a great mathematician of Indian origin. The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her mere errors of feeling.

A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible.

It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

Beauty is so within. I don't care if you're the most attractive person on the planet...if you're not good inside, it will show. You fall in love with people from the inside out.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

Character contributes to beauty.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.