Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Quotations
Beauty
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
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
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
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
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
