Quotations
Beauty

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

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
- Nikolai Gogol

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

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
- Chet Raymo

The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
- George Bernard Shaw

...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
- Carson Kressley

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
- Coco Chanel

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
- John Ruskin

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
- Richard Rodgers

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