A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Quotations
Beauty
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
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
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"
Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.
-Emily Gabriela Vira
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
