She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
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)
There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion. (Proverbs 11:22)
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Beauty is a form of genius – is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
