True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
