We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
