Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Quotations
Beauty
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
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
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
