A man’s right to confer judgment on any woman’s beauty while remaining himself unjudged is beyond scrutiny because it is thought of as God-given… As such, it is daily exercised more harshly in compensation for the other rights over women, and the other ways to control them, now lost forever.
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufactures.
No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
I do not believe that Nature has a heart; and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been credited with a heart because of her face.
I didn’t discover curves; I only uncovered them.
Society really doesn’t care about women’s appearance per se. What genuinely matters is that women remain willing to let others tell them what they can and cannot have.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful, with its strange mouth, its deep-cut, criss-cross lines, and its doughnut complexion.
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
We (Greeks) are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
