The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
