The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
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"
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
