Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
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
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"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
