Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, Your head like the golden-rod, And we will go sailing away from here To the beautiful land of Nod.
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
I heard the old, old, men say “all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.”
A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
She is magnificently ugly, deliciously hideous… in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind. (description of the writer George Eliot – born Mary Ann Evans)
There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
