People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Quotations
Beauty
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
