Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Quotations
Beauty
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
