Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Beauty
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 nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
-Steve Maraboli
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
