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"
Quotations
Beauty
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
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
