A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations
Beauty
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
