Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
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"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
