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 like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
