Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
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
