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"
Quotations
Beauty
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
-Mabel Iam
