Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Quotations
Beauty
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
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"
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
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
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
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
