Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
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
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
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
