Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Quotations
Beauty
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
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"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
