Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Beauty without expression is boring.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Girls are soft and pretty.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.