Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
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
"Duino Elegies"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
