Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Quotations
Beauty
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
