Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Quotations
Beauty
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
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"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
