Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
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"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
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
