Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
