Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
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
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
