You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
