Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Quotations
Beauty
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
