A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Quotations
Beauty
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
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
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
