A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Quotations
Beauty
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
