Beauty doesn’t need
ornaments.
Softness can’t bear
the weight of ornaments.
Munshi Premchand
(1880 – 1936, Indian writer)
Anyone who keeps the ability
to see beauty
never grows old.
Franz Kafka
(1883 – 1924, German-language writer)
Beauty is
eternity gazing
at itself
in a mirror.
Gibran Khalil Gibran,
(1883 – 1931, Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer)
Beauty begins the moment
you decide
to be yourself.
Coco Chanel
(1883 – 1971, French fashion designer)
Beauty,
more than bitterness,
makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale
(1884 – 1933, American lyric poet)
Beauty is
whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892 – 1950, American lyrical poet and playwright)
Beauty is only skin deep,
but ugly goes
clean to the bone.
Dorothy Parker
(1893 – 1967, American poet, critic and satirist)
Beauty is worse
than wine,
it intoxicates both
the holder and beholder.
Aldous Leonard Huxley
(1894 – 1963, English writer and philosopher)
Beauty is less important
than quality.
Eugene Ormandy
(1899 – 1985, Hungarian-born conductor and violinist)
A beautiful thing is never perfect.
Egyptian Proverb
Egyptian Proverb