Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Beauty
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
