You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Quotations
Beauty
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
