The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Beauty
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
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"
