Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Quotations
Beauty
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
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
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
