Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about that. Not really,' Bear shook his head. 'If the good's there, and you look for it, you'll see it in some way.' 'I think Bear is right,' Rose said decidedly. 'Fairy tales teach you that. No one who's really good ever stays ugly. It's always a disguise.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

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

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the ancient Greeks, Romans and during the renaissance. They will help make you good professionals.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

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.

Even virtue is fairer in a fair body.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.