“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress
As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.
Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)
“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress
As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Walt Whitman Starting from Paumanok
Starting from Paumanok. 12
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Alireza Kohany (1993) Musician, Actor, Entrepreneur
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Business_In_Simple_Language/aiXfDwAAQBAJ
“A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live, and I close my eyes.”
Paul Éluard (1895–1952) French poet
Une femme est plus belle que le monde où je vis, Et je ferme les yeux.
Cited: Leon-Gabriel Gros. "A miracol mostrare." Cahiers du Sud. (1953) p. 36.
Citation reported: Sara Sturm-Maddox. Petrarch's laurels. (1992). Penn State Press. p. 68.
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
Liebe machet schoene wîp:
desn mac diu schoene niht getuon, sin machet niemer lieben lîp.
"Herzeliebez vrowelîn", line 17; translation from Frederick Goldin German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages (New York: Anchor, 1973) p. 121.
“Life is beautiful, and this work is even more beautiful than life.”
Kees van Dongen (1877–1968) Dutch painter
Source: Modern Dutch painting: an introduction, Netherlands Information Service, (1960), p. 26
“Believe nothing of me
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: The Spice Box of Earth