Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Beauty
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
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"
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
