Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Quotations
Beauty
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
