Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Beauty
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
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
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
-Mabel Iam
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
