A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
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
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
