A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
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"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
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"
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
-Steve Maraboli
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
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
