Beauty Quote by Emily Dickinson

“How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who…

— Jane Austen

“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 girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was…

— Charles Dickens

“If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour,…

— Harper Lee

“So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all…

— Virginia Woolf

“Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her…

— E.M. Forster

“And you may comfort yourself with the thought that you have been the caltrop under her satin shoe every step of the way. You…

— Frances Hardinge

“Angrily, I concentrated on her flaws, willfully studying the photographs that caught her at awkward ages and less flattering angles - long nose, thin…

— Donna Tartt

“Frowning, Lillian stared at her sister's small ivory face, with its intelligent dark eyes and brows that were a shade too strongly marked. Not…

— Lisa Kleypas

“We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain make us glow with…

— Toni Morrison

“The first thing that came into my mind when I saw her lounging at the front of the class was the look in her…

— Serra Elinsen

“To think that you dared—to think that my—my noble boy—" "He wasn't very noble. Mothers don't ever really know their sons, I think." "Shameless…

— Elizabeth von Arnim