The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
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
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
-Drew Barrymore
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
