"Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will."

"Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!"

"I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy."

"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished."

"In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times."

"And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst."

"It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely."

"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy."

"The Beautiful is always strange."

"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."

"I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination."

"You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed."

"Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty."

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"I'm still very much Kate."

"Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor."

"When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean."

"I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back."

"I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear."

"When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone."

"I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless."

"She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other."

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."