Beauty Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma…

— Sophie Barthes

“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

“The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable: The beauty…

— Naomi Wolf

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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

To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power.…

— Alexandre Dumas

“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

“She was beautiful. Not despite her so-called flaws but because of them—those scrapes and life experiences that made her body like no other woman’s.…

— Ray Smith

Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that…

— Philip Sidney

“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no…

— Guy de Maupassant

“She was endowed with great beauty for all those attributes that were outside her control, but it was said that in all characteristics for…

— Anonymous

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

— Charles Dickens