You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Quotations
Beauty
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
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
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
