Appearance Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Instead of inspiring the gallant attentions which other women seek, she made men dream,”

— Honoré de Balzac

The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?”

— Maya Angelou

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

— Lisa Kleypas

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

— Joseph Addison

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest…

— Rudyard Kipling

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her…

— Joseph Addison

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.

— Walter Scott

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she…

— Margaret Mitchell

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin