Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
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
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
