Beauty Quote by Anonymous

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless…

— Oscar Wilde

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

— Charles Dickens

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

— Vonda N. McIntyre

She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there…

— Cecelia Ahern

“She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty…

— Jo Walton

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change.

— Philip Larkin

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed…

— Truman Capote

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they…

— Christina Rossetti

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

— Anonymous

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

— Virginia Woolf

How did her life live itself without her.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life…

— Bernhard Schlink