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
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
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 nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
