Beauty Quote by Henry James

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“Yes, she was young and inexperienced, but by God, she was a woman who knew what she wanted. Today had proved that she could…

— Alisha Rai

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible…

— Azar Nafisi

“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty…

— George Eliot

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

“She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [...]…

— Leo Tolstoy

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only…

— Jane Austen

“Either the woman was incredibly malleable and naive—or she may have been open to enticement, no matter what she told the authorities. Hers is…

— Gaiutra Bahadur

“She did not really like her. She would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was no elegance,…

— Jane Austen