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Quotes About Beauty

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.
~ Rosalind Russell
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
~ William Butler Yeats
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
~ Jane Austen
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
~ George Washington
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
~ Nelson Algren
One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.
~ William Shakespeare
A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity.
~ Barbara Gordon
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
~ Unknown
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
~ Thomas Wolfe
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
~ Marcel Proust
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
~ Akhenaton
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.
~ Coco Chanel
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
~ Anton Chekhov
There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo.
~ Unknown
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
~ William Shakespeare
I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
~ Nancy Reagan
Something that has not been said about the moon? That it gives manicures to women sleepwalkers.
~ Ramón Gómez de la Serna
For the nature of women is closely allied to art.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hair is the richest ornament of women.
~ Martin Luther
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
~ Oscar Wilde
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
~ Naomi Wolf