Alternate-history Quote by Gwenn Wright

“Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then…

— Oscar Wilde

“There is nothing to be found in human eyes, and that is their terrifying and dolorous enigma, their abominable and delusive charm. There is…

— Jean Lorrain

“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

“Beautiful maiden,” answered Candide, “when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he becomes lost to all…

— Voltaire

“We don't marry women, he thought; we marry angels, and in this moment or two of the marriage act, the scales fall from our…

— Cornell Woolrich

Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as…

— Kristin Cashore

“The eyes themselves were of that baffling protean gray which is never twice the same; which runs through many shades and colorings like intershot…

— Jack London

“The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension…

— Frank Herbert

“My father was exceptionally tall and exceptionally handsome, and he only had to walk into a room to dominate the assembly of people. He…

— Philippa Gregory

“I shall advise all the good-looking women of my acquaintance not to die”

— Susanna Clarke

I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he…

— Stu Weber

Beautiful eyes are those that show, Like crystal panes where hearth fires glow, Beautiful thoughts that burn below.

— Ellen Palmer Allerton