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
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
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
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
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
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
