The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
