Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Quotations
Beauty
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
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
