
Attributed in Lewis Copeland, Best Quotations for All Occasions (1965), p. 19
Attributed
Variant: The Beautiful is always strange.
Attributed in Lewis Copeland, Best Quotations for All Occasions (1965), p. 19
Attributed
“You're late,' he said.
'I'm beautiful.'
'You're always beautiful.'
'I'm always late too.”
Source: Death Bringer
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
“Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.”
Source: House of Leaves
“For the eye is always in search of beauty,”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book III, Chapter III, Sec. 13
Context: For the eye is always in search of beauty, and if we do not gratify its desire for pleasure by a proportionate enlargement in these measures, and thus make compensation for ocular deception, a clumsy and awkward appearance will be presented to the beholder.
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
Source: The Secret History