Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
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"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
