Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Quotations
Beauty
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
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"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
