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
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
