You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
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
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
