There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Quotations
Beauty
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
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"
