Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
