We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
