Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Quotations
Beauty
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
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 soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
