Source: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 18, p. 278.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mrs. Maxwell to Helen
Context: Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
Original: (it) La bellezza si osserva, l'intelligenza attrae, la simpatia incuriosisce, la dolcezza conquista, ma la semplicità innamora.
Source: prevale.net
“Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.”
Source: Every Day
“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.”
Quoted in Ladies' Home Journal, April 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=4c8fAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Zest+is+the+secret+of+all+beauty+There+is+no+beauty+that+is+attractive+without+zest%22&pg=PA90#v=onepage
On dit communément: la plus belle femme du monde ne peut donner que ce qu'elle a; ce qui est très faux: elle donne précisément ce qu'on croit recevoir, puisqu'en ce genre, c'est l'imagination qui fait le prix de ce qu'on reçoit.
Maximes et Pensées, #383
Maxims and Considerations, #383
The sad truth is that attractive people do better in school, where they receive more help, better grades, and less punishment; at work, where they are rewarded with higher pay, more prestigious jobs, and faster promotions; in finding mates, where they tend to be in control of the relationships and make most of the decisions; and among total strangers, who assume them to be interesting, honest, virtuous, and successful. After all, in fairy tales, the first stories most of us hear, the heroes are handsome, the heroines are beautiful, and the wicked sots are ugly. Children learn implicitly that good people are beautiful and bad people are ugly, and society restates that message in many subtle ways as they grow older. So perhaps it’s not surprising that handsome cadets at West Point achieve a higher rank by the time they graduate, or that a judge is more likely to give an attractive criminal a shorter sentence.
Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 5 “Vision” (pp. 271-272)
“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Inceldom
The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany (Doubleday, Page & Co New York, 1916)
2 April 1891.
Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940
