Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Quotations
Beauty
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
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"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
