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

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.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

I 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.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

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.

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

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

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Of 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.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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

Beautiful 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.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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.

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

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.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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

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

It’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.

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.

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.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

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.

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.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

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

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

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

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

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

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

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

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.

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

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

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

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