Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Beauty
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
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
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
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"
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
