Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder

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

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.