The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
-Steve Maraboli
