Beautiful women Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beautiful women Beauty Health beauty Peculiar Plainness Temptation
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic,… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide,… — David Cross Copy Share Image
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she… — Bert Stern Copy Share Image
Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!! — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple. — Hubert de Givenchy Copy Share Image
“Take me as I am Take me, baby, in stride Only you can save me tonight There's nowhere to run Nowhere to hide You… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Amongst all the beautiful women in this world.. there always an idiot ex-boyfriend, who still expects her love again” — 69rascal Copy Share Image
“This man was gorgeous. I'm mentioning this because women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
