Characteristics Quote by James Agate

“She wore a loose-fitting purple velvet Pre-Raphaelite gown, and her abundant dark-brown hair flowed down her back and shoulders to her waist. As she…

— Gary Inbinder

“Mrs. Tulliver was what is called a good-tempered person,–never cried, when she was a baby, on any slighter ground than hunger and pins; and…

— George Eliot

“With her wild red hair draped around her pallid visage, she could easily be mistaken for a nymph from a Pre-Raphaelite painting. But then…

— Renate Linnenkoper

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

— John Irving

She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire…

— Michael Ondaatje

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

— Paul Bowles

“As a self-confessed Pre-Raphaelite - a term that by the 1880s was interchangeable with ‘Aesthete’ - Constance was carrying a torch whose flame had…

— Franny Moyle

“She wore a boiled shirt and a bow-tie, and her hair, though long and bound, was sleek with oil. She was about two- or…

— Sarah Waters

There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art,…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Pre-Raphaelites they called themselves; not that they imitated the early Italian masters at all, but that in their work, as opposed to the facile…

— Oscar Wilde

“Had she been born 500 years sooner, Raphael would have chosen her as a model for his cherubs. Tendrils of bright red hair framed…

— E. L. Konigsburg

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

— Charles Dickens