Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are
-Ellen DeGeneres
"Seriously...I'm Kidding"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
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
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
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"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
