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
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
