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

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

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.

My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

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

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

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.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

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

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

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.

The 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.

I 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.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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

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

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

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.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

I like to feel blonde all over.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

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

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

I’ll never graduate from collagen.

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

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Here 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.

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.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

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

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

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

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

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

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Girls are soft and pretty.

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 beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.