Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quotations
Beauty
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
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"
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
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, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
