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
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
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"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
