The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
