Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Quotations
Beauty
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
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
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
