I heard the old, old, men say “all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.”
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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)