A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Speech is the small change of silence.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Caricature is rough truth.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

Bring the army of the faithful through.

Passions spin the plot We are betrayed by what is false within.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

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

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.