A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations
Beauty
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
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
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"
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
