No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotations
Beauty
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-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
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
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"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
