There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
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
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
