The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
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
