Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ev... -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?

Related Topics

Related Authors
Abi Morgan , Adolph Green , Adrienne Kennedy , Alan Ayckbourn , Ann-Marie MacDonald , Annie Baker , Arthur Adamov

About Author

George Bernard Shaw Quotes to Explore

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race....

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it....

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children....

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad....

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office....

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous....

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all....

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own....

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world....

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power....

Beauty Quotes to Explore

I think each woman has her own relationship to beauty....

The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestation...

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that s...

When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy sou...

One of the big things I've learned over the years and I'm excited that Glossier perpetuates is that wherever you're at, in terms of your scope of know...

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired....

It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be....

Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires...

The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and ...

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th ...