One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
