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
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
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
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
