I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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

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

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

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

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

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

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

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

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.

You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

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.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

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.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

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.

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

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

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.

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.

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

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