A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
