Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you’re like, ‚Wow, she looks so beautiful.‘ And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you’re like, ‚What’s the deal with these big and baggy suits.‘ It’s pretty ridiculous.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Beauty without expression is boring.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

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

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

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.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

The good is the beautiful.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

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

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

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.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

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