Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Quotations
Beauty
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
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
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
