Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
