“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”– Aldous Huxley Related Quotes “Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.”– Imelda Marcos “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 “What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.”– Hu Shih