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
Quotations
Beauty
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
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"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
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"
