Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Beauty
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
