There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
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
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
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
