A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations
Beauty
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
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"
