Admiration Quote by Rudyard Kipling

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered…

— Jane Porter

“It is the pretty face which creates sympathy in the hearts of men, those wicked rogues. A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Beauty is a fading flower;”[3] and, applied particularly to woman’s loveliness, there is none more favourite among that bundle of dull platitudes, of insipid,…

— Rhoda Broughton

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“...and it is characteristic of the young to become bound to an older and wiser man not only by the spell of his words…

— Umberto Eco

Modesty is the highest elegance

— Coco Chanel

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

— William Shakespeare