Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Beauty
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
