There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
