A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations
Beauty
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
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"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
