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
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.
-Emily Gabriela Vira
