Bel-ami Quote by Guy de Maupassant

“If only she were one of those sublimely mysterious women who could control a man with the flicker of an eyelash or a single…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though they were…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something--most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning--”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Her face was a synthesis of perfect symmetry and unusual proportion; he could have gazed at it for hours, trying to locate the source…

— J.K. Rowling

“She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare…

— Kate Chopin

“She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas…

— Thomas Hardy

“Beauty is sometimes hidden under a veil of tragedy.”

— Karen Amanda Hooper

“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

“How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke…

— Agatha Christie

“His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. “The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most fiercely hidden heart’s desires. Life, art, motherhood.…

— Claire Messud

“There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made me want to crush her, even to crunch her.…

— Iris Murdoch