Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Quotations
Beauty
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
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
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"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
