Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Quotations
Beauty
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
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
