In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
