Beauty Quote by Matthew Gregory Lewis

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“she could not be less than seventy-three or -four, and to judge by her appearance, altered though it was by illness and makeup, she…

— Diane Setterfield

“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty…

— George Eliot

“...Age gave her the peace, at least, to live inside that moment like a poet - to not sacrifice the beauty to the anxiety…

— Shannon Hale

“Her opinion is that she did not struggle her way to the august age of forty-three only to have the dignity accorded to her…

— Zen Cho

“She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame of each…

— Ann Radcliffe

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an…

— Tove Jansson

“She loved herself, and her body’s resistance to all those poisons was the exact measure of how indestructibly young and beautiful she felt she…

— James Meek

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“But there were also times when she cried out in the darkness biting her lips - cried out against the substance of her age:…

— Mervyn Peake

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“But that any other eyes should see the residue of her thirty-three years, the deposit of each day’s living mixed with something more secret…

— Virginia Woolf