Beauty Quote by Edith Wharton

“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as walking bare-footed…

— Edith Wharton

“He'd sacrifice much for her. He'd do anything she asked of him. He'd pay any price, except one. The price of giving her up.”

— Becky Wade

“She is staring at me wide-eyed, willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the…

— Lauren Oliver

“What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?”

— Tillie Olsen

“This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was…

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

“She was all the world’s money, and I would spend it with her, my sharpest friend who changed the tide, my only comfort from…

— Daniel Handler

“He desired her vaguely but without conviction. They walked together. He suddenly realized that she had always been very decent to him. She had…

— Albert Camus

“He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.”

— Charles Bukowski

“She was poor and generous, an unfortunate combination.”

— Fauna Hodel

“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that…

— Upton Sinclair

“How could he possibly understand just how much she had to give and how desperately she wanted to give it to him, and him…

— Katie Jennings