Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in the streets. The worst of Bath…

— Jane Austen

“He was tender with her. He wiped her eyelids with his handkerchief, not noticing how soiled it was. It was stained with ink, crumpled,…

— Peter Carey

“The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. ... He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would…

— Jane Austen

“She had the face of an angel, and the hair of the Devil's handmaiden. The freshly washed locks flowed around her in a waist-length…

— Lisa Kleypas

“He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt…

— Nadia Scrieva

“Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness”

— Oscar Wilde

“Her eyes were liquid silver as they narrowed at him, swirling with as many mysteries as the stars in the night sky. "I want…

— Kerrigan Byrne

“He fathomed her, enclosed her. He did not see, or did not care to see, how her submissiveness moved and drew him, nor how…

— Sylvia Plath

“She chose her colors carefully. She dressed slowly, she adjusted her petals one by one. She did not wish to present herself all rumpled…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak

“Magnificent. Beautiful. Glorious. Marius couldn’t believe such a woman still existed in all the kingdoms. The small taste of her blood on his tongue…

— Juliette Cross

“Pure masculine virility can be found in the action of the warrior and in the detachment of the ascetic.”

— VD