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.
Charles DickensThere are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.
Audrey HepburnNo better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar WildeLife is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
Alice WalkerHere ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.
John MuirI do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie ChaplinBeauty without expression is boring.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA 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.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIf you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. NixonBeauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin FranklinPlain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine HepburnWhere lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.
Jerry SeinfeldTo me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen KellerIt is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar WildeTalent 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.
John C. MaxwellWhen you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.
Taylor SwiftI love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.
DJ KhaledA great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott FitzgeraldNature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco ChanelBeauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan PoeSecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas CarlyleOnly on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard ShawMy son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
Vivienne WestwoodBeauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund BurkeDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
Noam ChomskyA woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
BuddhaThanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.
Dolly PartonScience is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Stephen HawkingThe artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert CamusLet us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar WildeLove of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBeauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard ShawWrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark TwainEducation is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
ChanakyaIn nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice WalkerEverything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
ConfuciusI 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.
Lady GagaBeauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor DostoevskyNo matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.
Dolly PartonThe pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert EinsteinIn 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.
Oscar WildeImperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn MonroeI put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.
DJ KhaledI learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
Steve JobsWhen we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
John MuirHuman 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.
Leonardo da VinciThe beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.
Kevin HartNature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
John MuirMy sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert FrostMan is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. MenckenI don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.
Vivienne WestwoodEverybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.
AuroraI think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.
Angelina JolieBeautiful 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.
Christopher HitchensEven 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.
Alice WalkerJoy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Albert EinsteinNo object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar WildeIt’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.
Keanu ReevesOf 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.
Lao TzuA women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel