There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
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
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
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
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
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
