Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Beauty
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
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"
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"
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
