Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
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
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
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"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
