Her Beauty famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.
-- George Meredith -
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.
-- Josephine Humphreys -
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.
-- Leslie Caron -
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck -
In her beauty rests (both) my death and my life.
-- Maurice Sceve -
Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
-- Meshell Ndegeocello -
Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .
-- Michelle Moran -
It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.
-- Stacy Schiff -
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.
-- George Chapman
