Lasting Beauty Quotes

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

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever.

The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.

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

It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.

You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.

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

What is really beautiful must always be true.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made. Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.

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

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Beauty can be quite boring, especially if you're talking about beauty that doesn't last. And what lasts is exactly the thing that maybe wasn't pretty at first. It comes over time to be beautiful or interesting or exciting.

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix external verities, things that are true for all time, ideas that are true for all time: Rome will last forever! America will last forever! Beauty, as defined by the fashion industry, is one of those things—this is beautiful. This will always be beautiful—and hold it in a way that has some sense of permanence about it, and absoluteness. And yet it’s not.

Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.