Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
