Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
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"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
