Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-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
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
