The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
