When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

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?

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.

Girls are soft and pretty.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

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

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

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.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

Beauty without expression is boring.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

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

Water’s never clumsy.

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

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

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

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

I’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

Nature 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.

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.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

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.

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?

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.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

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

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

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.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

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

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

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

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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.

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

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

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

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

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.

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

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.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.