Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Quotations
Beauty
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
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
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
