Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quotations
Beauty
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
