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
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
