Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Quotations
Beauty
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
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"
