Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.
-Emily Gabriela Vira
