Her Beauty Quotes - Page 2

• What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Men, No Friends

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, October 24, 1991.

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• A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. That's how I felt seeing the Earth for the first time. I could not help but love and cherish her.

  Taylor Wang

  Love, Girl, Men

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• The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Men, Vanity

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.129

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• Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Loses

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• An Airstream is a lot like a first love: you are lured by her charm, seduced by her beauty, and once bitten, you are forever chasing after her mystique.

  Bruce Littlefield

  Love You, First Love, Forever

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• She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Husband, Regret

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• By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

  Georges Bataille

  Men, Always Trying, Attention

  Georges Bataille (1962). “Erotism”, p.131, City Lights Books

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• 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

  Wisdom, Flames, Thrones

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.51, 谷月社

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• Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions...

  Woody Allen

  Marriage, Giving Up, Names

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.

  Betsey Johnson

  Dream, Color, Drawing

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• With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose (Jimmy Durante), and emphasized his nose, and he was very pleased with the picture. That could not happen with a woman. The most intelligent woman will reject a portrait if it doesn't flatter her.

  Philippe Halsman

  Character, Intelligent, Men

  "The Mask Falls: Psychological Portraits by Philippe Halsman".

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• 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

  Tree, England, Architecture

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.5

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• Kim Kardashian is a kind of archetype. But she owns her beauty and is tremendously successful. There's no tragedy, there's no drug story. There's just her and her fame and her beauty. But Anna Nicole created that template of somebody that you'd want to watch on reality TV. Somebody that you'd want to invite into your home or as a role model, in terms of beauty and lifestyle and glamour.

  Margaret Cho

  Home, Successful, Reality

  "Sing out, sister: an interview with Margaret Cho". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Glasses, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Desire, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 34

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• The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Spiritual, Sweet

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• 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

  Sex, Brain, Attributes

  Stacy Schiff (2010). “Cleopatra: A Life”, p.255, Hachette UK

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• It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Heart, Wish

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”, p.135

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• In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

  Auguste Rodin

  Flower, Character, Eye

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• Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

  Arthur J. Lamb

  Beauty, Men, Bird

  "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" (song) (1900)

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• Time can but make her beauty over again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Appreciation

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Memories, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.127

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• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

  William Davenant

  Stars, Eye, Light

  William Davenant, “Morning Song”

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• We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

  Leigh Hunt

  Eye, Animal, Expression

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.216

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