Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Quotations
Beauty
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
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
