The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Quotations
Beauty
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
