Beauty Quotes

Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said . . . was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret? ~ A Lost Lady by Willa Cather "Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal,—as we are!" ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte "Well, I can imagine many faces more beautiful than Eliza's, though not more charming. I allow she has small claims to perfection; but then, I maintain that, if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "I always say beauty is only sin deep." ~ Reginald by Saki Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I could set my ten commandments in your face. ~ Henry VI, Part Two by William Shakespeare "I'm afraid to speak or move for fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." ~ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare "Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks, depend upon it. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved-to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. ~ The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald