A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Quotations
Beauty
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
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
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 where you find it.
-Madonna
