Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
