Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
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.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
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
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"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens