You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Quotations
Beauty
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
-Mabel Iam
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
