Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Beauty
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
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
