Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
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
