No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
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
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
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"
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 is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
