Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
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 without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
