Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Quotations
Beauty
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
