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
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
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
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
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
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
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
