Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Quotations
Beauty
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
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 without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
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"
