Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
