"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."
― W. Somerset Maugham
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Beauty
More From W. Somerset Maugham
- "Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
- "What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories."
- "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
More In Beauty
- "I don’t know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It’s more than talent and beauty. Maybe it’s the audience seeing itself in you."― Joan Blondell
- "Beauty is everything."― Jorja Fox
- "When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."― Bernard Berenson