When the candles are out all women are fair.
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see The curved line ever follow thee.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
Beauty, whatever kind, is in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.
If to her share some female errors fall, look on her face, and you’ll forget ’em all.
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage;
Everybody could be beautiful, really, but most women present themselves so awkwardly. Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the […]
