The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
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"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
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
