There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
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
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
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"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
