Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
