Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
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
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
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
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
