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“But what made him still more fortunate, as he said himself, was having a daughter of such exceeding beauty, rare intelligence, gracefulness, and virtue,…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but…

— Edmund Wilson

“She’d always envied beautiful women. Not solely for the beauty itself but because when attributes were parceled out by whatever deity assigned them, beauty…

— Tessa Dare

“He wanted to achieve something of surpassing beauty that would last. A creation that would mean that he--the mosaic worker Caius Crispus of Varena--had…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“At ten, she was moreover noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the…

— Jane Austen

“She seemed the incarnation of girlish scorn and wilful”

— Doma Publishing House

“Her face may have been the most beautiful female face I have ever seen. Yet, it was a beauty that was intimidating and overwhelming.…

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

“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

“Beauty like her is not born. It is suffered for, earned and shaped, until the day that it finally becomes. For there is nothing…

— Becca Lee

“It is the pretty face which creates sympathy in the hearts of men, those wicked rogues. A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“She was pretty and, even more, she was smart, and she had a divine figure according to all accounts. He fell in love with…

— Guy de Maupassant