Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Quotations
Beauty
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
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"
