The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
