A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations
Beauty
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
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 is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
