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"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
-Mabel Iam
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
