Beauty Quote by Edith Wharton

“Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with their beauty…

— Victor Hugo

“figure full of the affluent beauty of womanhood in its prime, bearing unmistakable marks of the polished pupil of the world in the grace…

— Louisa May Alcott

“His chest expanded with a rising sense of pride for the young woman who had gone unappreciated by her own people. The Oclanders would…

— Vivienne Savage

“She looked like a somewhat frightened and helpless woman, and yet he knew she was a deadly assassin. The same as he was. She…

— Lynn Raye Harris

“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

“The long, curled hair, the dark head bent so reverently, so innocently before her, implied a pair of the finest legs that a young…

— Virginia Woolf

“She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“She told him he saw the world with the eye of an artist and so could isolate beauty from the terror of existence.”

— Brooks Malcolm

“She won't know how to fulfill the duties of a noblewoman.' 'She is quite bright. And one could find no fault with her manners.…

— Julia Quinn

“She was tallish with dark hair which fell in waves around a pale and serious face. Standing still, alone, she seemed almost somber, like…

— Douglas Adams