Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
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
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
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"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
