Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Quotations
Beauty
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
