“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.”

—  George Bernard Shaw

Preface to Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence (1931)
1940s and later

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