Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Quotations
Beauty
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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 is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
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
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
