Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Quotations
Beauty
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
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 eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
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
