Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Quotations
Beauty
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
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
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
