Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

— Donna Tartt

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

— Lord Byron

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat…

— Charles Dickens

“Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance. Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue”

— Osamu Dazai

Beauty can be quite boring, especially if you're talking about beauty that doesn't last. And what lasts is exactly the thing that maybe wasn't…

— Carine Roitfeld

“I'm intrigued. If not by beauty, how then does one spot the garden-variety nobleman?" "Easily," she said. "One need only look for the promise…

— Kristen Callihan

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present…

— Anonymous

I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own…

— Dalai Lama

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

— J. C. Ryle

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

— Vernon Howard

“Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.”

— Crystal Woods

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the…

— Brennan Manning

So glad I'm with genuine people who care about me for me. Not the fake bullshit personality I see tons ofpeople with.

— Anonymous

There's things you can say about me, but here's what you can't say about me: that I'm not being genuine.

— Leah Remini

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

— Martin Luther King, Jr