Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Quotations
Beauty
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
