Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
