There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
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
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
