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
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
