The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Beauty
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
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"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
