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
Quotations
Beauty
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
