There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
