Blushing is the color of virtue.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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?

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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.

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

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

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

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

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.

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

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

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.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

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?

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

All art is quite useless.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I’ll never graduate from collagen.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.