“Grey eyes will never dampen a pretty face.”

“Her body is a philosophical novel that proves the existence of extraterrestrial life forms.”

“Flowers look beautiful whether it’s day or night, and so do you.”

“In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato’s belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we’re making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we’re hold out for.)”

“Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?”

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.”

“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”

“There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.”

“You don’t need to look at the beauty to feel the love.”

“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.”

“Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.”

“Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.”

“O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.”

“I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful”