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
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
