Quote by Voltaire

“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be--and are ruined.”

— W.K. Marriott

“Sometimes it's the flaws that make something lovely.”

— Elizabeth Michels

“Men are beasts, selfish and brutal. However gentle the words, there are always darker motives underneath.”

— George R.R. Martin

“You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.”

— Jeffrey Archer

“Perhaps I shouldn’t like it so much, but I’ve always been one for finding beauty in the ugliest stories.”

— LeAnn Neal Reilly

“And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can’t even meet their own standards.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ...…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Few men truly like seeing beauty burn.”

— Pierce Brown

“Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as…

— Richard L. McGuire

“What is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper.”

— Kristen Callihan

“Men were strictly for pleasure and for experimenting with versions of the self.”

— Margot Livesey

“Because it was said that a man had to appreciate beauty in order to know what he is fighting to protect.”

— Deborah Smith