Alexander Theroux Quotes

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

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

I want to be silverly beautiful.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

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

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

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.

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.

She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in which love lies in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She creates grace without movement and makes all divinity fit into her slightest gesture. And neither Venus in her shell, nor Diana striding in the great, blossoming forest, can compare to her when she goes through the streets of paris in her sedan chair.