Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.

The most expensive jewels are not found around our necks, but in our hearts.

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

I love a bold statement piece!

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.