Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
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
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
