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
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
