
“You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.”
Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) American magazine editor
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
“You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.”
Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) American magazine editor
“It is useless to be young without being beautiful, or beautiful without being young.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il ne sert à rien d'être jeune sans être belle, ni d'être belle sans être jeune.
Maxim 497.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Beauty attracts, elegance fascinates, the heart captures, but the mind seduces.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La bellezza attrae, l'eleganza affascina, il cuore cattura, ma la mente seduce.
Source: prevale.net
“For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.”
Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer
The Growth of Love, Sonnet 8.
Poetry
“It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.”
Marc Jacobs (1963) American fashion designer
Freeman, Hadley (2007). "The geek of chic" http://www.theage.com.au/news/fashion/the-geek-of-chic/2007/03/08/1173166892312.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 TheAge.com.au (accessed April 19, 2007)
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright
“Beauty takes us to a space that is ineffable, a place of secrets.”
Subhash Kak (1947) Indian computer scientist
Interview The Hindu, 2014
Miscellaneous
“To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity <br class="br">From the poems written in English