“Even children have a sense of feminine beauty, or at least they understand instinctively whether a woman is pure or not.”

Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi – Book One: The Way of the Samurai

“It’s hard to stay mad when it’s so much beauty in the world.”

American Beauty

“… beauty is largely a matter of craft and adjustment.”

James Stephens, Three Young Wives

“Physical beauty, he had learned quite early, was the arbiter of nothing, could even be a dangerous and bloody thing.”

Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja

“But isn’t every life, isn’t every work beautiful?”

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The dreadful thing is that beauty is not only terrifying but also mysterious.”

Fyodor Dostoevski, The Brothers Karamazov

“Beauty is perhaps a dangerous possession.”

Agatha Christie, The Companion