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
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
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 the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
