Fulke Greville Quotes

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I'm such a believer in 'if you're beautiful on the inside it really shows on the outside.' I know a lot of people who are physically very beautiful, but their inside doesn't represent that. So to me, it just doesn't come across as having a sparkle to them or an energy that just radiates.

I have a really beautiful mother. She is close to 60, and to this day doesn't wear a speck of make up or dye her hair, and everyone who meets her is completely dazzled by her. She seriously glows.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.

Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

You don't know what beauty is. You use the word, certainly, but your word is empty. Beauty is known only by one who has known the inner beauty, one who has known the inner flower opening. Then whenever a flower is seen, it reminds you of your inner beauty.

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.

True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.

Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful from within, and that is real beauty. Once it is there, your physical form won't matter much. Your eyes will start shining with joy; your face will have a gleam, a glory. The form will become immaterial. When something starts flowing from within you, some grace, then the outer form is just put aside.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Beauty is a radiance that orginates from within.

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.