The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Quotations
Beauty
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
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
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
