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

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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

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

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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

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

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

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

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

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

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

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

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

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 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.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Beauty without expression is boring.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

The good is the beautiful.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

My 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.

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?

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.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

A 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.

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

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.