Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
