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
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-Bryant H. McGill
"Voice of Reason"
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
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
