If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Beauty
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
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
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
