Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
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"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
