Advantage Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“Physical beauty, however, was frequently more a detriment than an advantage if one wished ever to be respected and valued for one's mind.”

— Kathleen Morgan

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

— Fay Weldon

For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.

— Marlene Dietrich

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that…

— George Grenville

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

— Naomi Wolf

“Beauty is an influence based off of judgment.”

— Alyssa Keller

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

— Nora Roberts

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely…

— Anne Bronte

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

— Lucy Grealy