“A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sterness has a power beyond beauty” MenLoveBeauty Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre
“...he was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five. I felt no fear of him, and but little shyness. Had he been a handsome, heroic-looking young gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him against his will, and offering my services unasked. I had hardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my life spoken to one. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic.” MenBeautyRochester Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre
“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel.” BeautyAngelMajesty Book:Tales of Angria Source: Tales of Angria
“I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I concluded it would be a waste of labour. "Doubtless," though I, "she is some stiff old maid ; for though the daughter of Madame Reuter, she may well number upwards of forty winters; besides, if it were otherwise, if she be both young and pretty, I am not handsome, and no dressing can make me so, therefore I'll go as I am." And off I started, cursorily glancing sideways as I passed the toilet-table, surmounted by a looking-glass: a thin irregular face I saw, with sunk, dark eyes under a large, square forehead, complexion destitute of bloom or attraction; something young, but not youthful, no object to win a lady's love, no butt for the shafts of Cupid.” AgeFictionBeautyYouthAppearanceVictorian Book:The Professor Source: The Professor
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us.” BeautyProtectionFeeling God Book:Jane Eyre Source: Jane Eyre