The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
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
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
