Years ago Quote by Ignatius Sancho

“{Calpurnia)"My mother…she’s desperate for a daughter she can dress like a porcelain doll. Sadly, I shall never be such a child. How I long…

— Sarah MacLean

“Her beauty is the least of her dower-and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever known. That laugh of hers! I've angled all…

— L.M. Montgomery

“You ask if she had beauty's grace? I know not - but a nobler face My eyes have seldom seen; A keen and fine…

— The Bronte Sisters

“The pityingly look made Sophie utterly ashamed. He was such a dashing specimen too, with a bony, sophisticated face--really quite oold, well into his…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“I offered my most enticing smile, the one I’d been perfecting for years. Sincere and encouraging, it brimmed with counterfeit confidence. My smile had…

— Tara Leigh

“I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion cooled, how dreadful to find…

— Charlotte Brontë

“TO THE LADY JESSICA- May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a…

— Frank Herbert

“And now Magdalen, the girl he had thought was so sweet and beautiful, the girl he imagined would love to marry him if he…

— Melanie Dickerson

“...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul...”

— John Geddes

“Your beauty is an elixir. Which has given an orphan life. Lovesick I will die, from the grave I will cry Should you decline…

— Vikas Swarup

“You talk about her as if she is the Notre Dame Cathedral!" "She is. And the Statue of Liberty and Abbey Road and the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“spot.  She stood in the doorway of the first class car as if waiting for the applause of her subjects.  Her eyes swept the…

— Angelina Vance