Active Quote by David Cannadine

“She was endowed with great beauty for all those attributes that were outside her control, but it was said that in all characteristics for…

— Anonymous

“Her statistics were more than a study... For her, Quetelet was the hero as scientist, and the presentation copy of his Physique Sociale is…

— Karl Pearson

“She was carrying an armful of Bibles for her class, and such was her view of life that events which produced heartache in others…

— Thomas Hardy

“She is so bright and glorious that you cannot look at her face or her garments for the splendor with which she shines. For…

— Hildegard von Bingen

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to…

— M.M. Kaye

“She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind of life and dreamt every kind of…

— Roman Payne

“she was the kind of woman who only gave herself away in small doses, leaving men wandering like little children at all that she…

— Christopher Poindexter

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

— Stacy Schiff

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“It was the same with Elizabeth of Genton. As a result of whipping she actually passed into a state of bacchanalian madness. As a…

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“Once there was a girl who was too sure of herself. Not everyone would call her beautiful, but they admitted that she had a…

— Marie Rutkoski