Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Quotations
Beauty
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.
-Emily Gabriela Vira
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
