Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
