The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore