Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, every thing else […]
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, Your head like the golden-rod, And we will go sailing away from here To the beautiful land of Nod.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
I heard the old, old, men say “all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.”
A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
She is magnificently ugly, deliciously hideous… in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind. (description of the writer George Eliot – born Mary Ann Evans)
