Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
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"
