If to her share some female errors fall, look on her face, and you’ll forget ’em all.
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
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 […]
Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
Money is the best cosmetic.
The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
A young spring-tender girl combed her joyous hair in the midnight mirror ‘You are very ugly’ said the glass But on her lips hung a smile of dove-secret loveliness for only that morning, had not the blind boy said, ‘You are beautiful’?
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl’s best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart’s paradise; […]
