George Eliot Beauty Quotations

She was perfectly quiet now, but not asleep--only soothed by sweet porridge and warmth into that wide-gazing calm which makes us older human beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky--before a steady glowing planet, or a full-flowered eglantine, or the bending trees over a silent pathway.

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.