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
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
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 is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
