Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quotations
Beauty
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
