We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
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"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
