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"
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
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
