Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Beauty
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 without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
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"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
