Louise Wilson Quotes

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

I come from a culture where we wear white for weddings. In India, it's different. But I really feel that there should be no set notions, and a bride should only wear something when she's comfortable in it.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West.

We cannot just ape the west. What may be good in an alien country may be unpalatable in India.

When I was a kid, to me, all women that I think were beautiful always tend to be ethnic of some sort. To be honest I think it's the eyebrows - the powerful, strong eyebrows.

Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.

My grandma loves beauty pageants, like most of Latin American culture, but it's not for me.

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

What is beauty? It's what you love.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.