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
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
