Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Quotations
Beauty
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
