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
Quotations
Beauty
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"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
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
