Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
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"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
