In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
