"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused." ― Edward Gibbon Topic(s): Beauty More From Edward Gibbon "But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous." "History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." "Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery." More In Beauty "Well, I’ve never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se."― Cate Blanchett "‘American Dad’ is, by its nature, much more political."― Seth MacFarlane "Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first."― Paul Klee