Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Quotations
Beauty
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are
-Ellen DeGeneres
"Seriously...I'm Kidding"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
