There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
