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
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
