Quotes About Beauty

Many a flower is born to blush unseen,    And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

He, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her. Respect, esteem and confidence had vanished forever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown.

I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject...

Had he been even old, ugly, and vulgar, the gratitude and kindness of Mrs. Dashwood would have been secured by any act of attention to her child; but the influence of youth, beauty, and elegance, gave an interest to the action which came home to her feelings.

What are young men to rocks and mountains?

Cuando contemplo una noche como esta, tengo la sensación de que ni la maldad ni el dolor pueden existir en el mundo; y es seguro que de las dos cosas habría menos si se atendiera más a la sublimidad de la naturaleza y la humanidad llevara su mirada un poco más allá del círculo de mezquindades en que se encierra, contemplando un espectáculo como éste.

Accade talvolta che una donna sia più bella a ventinove anni di quanto non sia stata dieci anni prima.

I've been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. Miss

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other? Emma

till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.

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Here Catherine secretly acknowledged the power of love; for, though exceedingly fond of her brother, and partial to all his endowments, she had never in her life thought him handsome.

I well know the sight of beauty is a real gratification.

Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying.

to my eye you could never alter.

If Louisa Musgrove would be beautiful and happy in her November of life, she will cherish all her present powers of mind.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Ahora deja que te mire, Fanny, y te diga lo mucho que me gustas. Realmente, por lo que puedo juzgar con esta luz, estás muy bonita. ¿Qué te has puesto?

Ninguna hoja se marchitará porque nosotras nos vayamos, ninguna rama dejará de agitarse aunque ya no podamos mirarlas. No, seguirán iguales, inconscientes del placer o la pena que ocasionan e insensibles a cualquier cambio en aquellos que caminan bajo sus sombras. Y, ¿quién quedará para gozarlos?

It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree as you do-who have not at least been given a taste for nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. This preservative she had now obtained; and at the age of twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt all the good luck of it.

Son jóvenes aún para ver la realidad del mundo y adquirir la humillante convicción de que los hombres guapos deben tener algo de qué vivir, al igual que los feos.