You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

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.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

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.

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

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

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.

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.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

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.

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.

Young people can create beautiful things.

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

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

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

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.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

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.

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

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.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

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

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

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

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

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

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.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Beauty without expression is boring.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.