We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
