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
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
