Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Beauty
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
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
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
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
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
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
