Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
