The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Beauty
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
