One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
-Mabel Iam
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
