You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Quotations
Beauty
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
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
