Beauty Quote by George Eliot

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

— George Eliot

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

— George Eliot

“Beauty is a fading flower;”[3] and, applied particularly to woman’s loveliness, there is none more favourite among that bundle of dull platitudes, of insipid,…

— Rhoda Broughton

“It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.”

— Lew Wallace

“A willingness to be pleased requires modesty and even innocence--easy to deride as mawkish and sentimental.”

— Gretchen Rubin

“Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.”

— Dean Koontz

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the…

— Hannah More

“We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those…

— Alain de Botton

“Many people fail to see how modesty and sweetness of temper compound erotic appeal.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“people talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.”

— Amor Towles

“Averse alike to flatter, or offend; Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.”

— Alexander Pope