We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
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"
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
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
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
