"Beauty is all very well at first..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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“I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.”
“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.”
“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”
More on Beauty
“You are Beautiful when you are happy”
“People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
“Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.”
More on Perception
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
“There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.”
“Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.”