Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Quotations
Beauty
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
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"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
