Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Quotations
Beauty
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
