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"
Quotations
Beauty
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
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, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
