Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Quotations
Beauty
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
