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, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
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"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
