George Bernard Shaw Beauty Quotations

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.