A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Quotations
Beauty
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
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
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
