All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
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
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
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"
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
