True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
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
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
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
