You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Quotations
Beauty
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"
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
