Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Quotations
Beauty
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
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
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
