There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
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
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
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"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
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"
