Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Quotations
Beauty
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
