Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
