The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
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"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
