Advantage Quote by Jane Austen

“No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening…

— Jane Austen

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

— Charles Dickens

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

He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the…

— Tom Perrotta

“Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a ripe peach. Her hair, partially silvered by age, was parted…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and…

— Betty Neels

“In the midst of so many brown heads her fairness alone was arresting. It was an autumn evening, misty and cold, and the room…

— Anna Kavan

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

— Truman Capote

“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

“The deep baritone of his voice, and the words he uttered, held Haley spellbound. Was she beautiful? As she’d looked in the mirror at…

— Melody Anne

“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty child, and…

— Victor Hugo

“As the face of beauty grows dim with age, so gradually the brilliancy of youth fades from the pearl and the complexion of it…

— Wallis Richard Cattelle