The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Industry need not wish.

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.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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

Nature is wont to hide herself.

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.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

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

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

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.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Life 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.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

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

When 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.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

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.

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

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

The only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I have two main hair people I work with. They’re always with me. I’m like, ‚I’m bored! I wanna change my hair!‘ That’s the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

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