The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
