Best beauty & features Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.”

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Author:Herbert Spencer

“A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire. [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.”

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Book:Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face.”

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Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.”

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Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.”

Knows May Persons Secret Beauty Air Agree Features Conformity Symmetry Complexion Agreeableness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.”

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Book:Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc

Source: Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc

“True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.”

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Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.”

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Author:Kin Hubbard

“Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.”

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Author:Richard Roeper

“Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.”

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Book:D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles

Source: D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles

“A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.”

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Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.”

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Author:Karl Blind

“Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.”

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Book:Dreamthorp

Source: Dreamthorp

“The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.”

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