Adornment Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A woman, desires to hear nice words from a man who can praise her beauty.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method…

— Samuel Johnson

“Princess,” King Gaius said, standing as she took a seat. “You look beautiful today.” “Thank you, your grace.” Why did men always find it…

— Morgan Rhodes

“But you must be awash in a sea of compliments, my lady. Every gentleman you meet must voice his admiration, his wish to make…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

— Edmund Spenser

“Must we always bedeck ourselves in prettiness to be thought pleasing? It would appear so. A woman must look a certain way to be…

— Paula Brackston

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is…

— Jean Giraudoux

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be…

— A. P. Herbert

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its…

— William Hazlitt

“I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made…

— Lionel Suggs