Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Beauty
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
