In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Quotations
Beauty
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
