A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
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 is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
