Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Quotations
Beauty
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
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
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
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
