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
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
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
