Akhenaton Quotes

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

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

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.

There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils: And in the main it will be found, that a power over a man's support is a power over his will.

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.

True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.