“Beauty is beauty.”— Lailah Gifty Akita Related Quotes “Often, the roles I’m offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.”– Kristin Scott Thomas “For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was – a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces – and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors.”— Henry Adams “Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden.”— Jack London