Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Quotations
Beauty
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
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
