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“beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.”

Men Needs Faces House Beauty Ready Lovely Assumption Great Men Handsome Chamber Lure

Author:Erica Jong

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.”

Made Certain Song House Strong Rooms Beauty Grace Tree Please Taste Standards Bird Rivers Weak Relation Dresses Prose Verses Discourse Good Taste

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.”

Men Needs Use Beautiful House Water Poor Beauty Expression Ugly Disgusting Closets Ignoble

Author:Theophile Gautier

“Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.”

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”

Together Beautiful House Beauty Virtue Being Beautiful

Author:Petrarch

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

Firsts Wells Looks Has Beens Humor Funny Three House Beauty Sight

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”

May Doe Art Today Past Order House Perfect Beauty Break Taste Essentials Garden Admire Indifference Admiration Gardening Indifferent Radiant Cottages Radiant Beauty

Author:William Rothenstein

“As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.”

Knows Real Asks House Poor Views Beauty Higher Percent Towns Sells Agents Parks Flats Estates Surroundings Identical Estate Agents

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.”

Ideas House Beauty Elements Built Simplify Cabins Simplification Log Cabins

Author:Gustav Stickley

“A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.”

Light House Space Beauty Air Depends Preservation Maximum Open Spaces

Author:Clarence Stein

“Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.”

Body House Beauty Flower Thousand Sitting My Friends Garden Your Body Bother Glimpse Petals Excursions Beauty On The Inside

Book:Kabir: Ecstatic Poems

Source: Kabir: Ecstatic Poems

“It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . . . Christmas trees . . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.”

“When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.”

Men Life Inspirational Heart Home House Born Beauty Design Building Labor Senses Developing Construction Interior Design Cornerstones

Book:The Craftsman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine in the Interest of Better Art, Better Work, and a Better and More Reasonable Way of Living

Source: The Craftsman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine in the Interest of Better Art, Better Work, and a Better and More Reasonable Way of Living