Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Quotations
Beauty
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
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
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
