Beauty Quote by Jane Austen

“Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Her beauty had not blinded him to her shortcomings, but perhaps it had to her virtues”

— Robert Grede

“She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque,…

— Oscar Wilde

“She did not feel anything so boring as beautiful. She felt fierce.”

— Meredith Duran

“It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.”

— Lew Wallace

“And indeed she did not. I thought she had a tired, dragged appearance, but I would not say so. I knew her well, and…

— Marie Corelli

“Beauty isn't perfect. It's something to be felt and something to be breathed. [She] did that every day, whether she knew it or not.”

— Denise Jaden

“For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.”

— Algernon Blackwood

“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

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be…

— Victor Hugo

“and if she wasn’t precisely pretty, she had a force of character that is often more attractive than simple beauty.”

— Diana Gabaldon