A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations
Beauty
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
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
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
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
