“A woman always exaggerates her beauty and its influence when they are past; and it was a perpetual grief to think what her pretty face might have done for her.”
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes

on his mom, Dolly Wiseman. Spin (October 2001)

Original: (it) Lei, di una particolare ed unica bellezza. I lineamenti del suo volto e del suo corpo sono di una sottile trasgressione che si fonde tra dolcezza e sensualità. Il suo fascino profuma di donna.
Source: prevale.net

[The Quest for beauty, http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/01/quest/index.html, June 16 2006]

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.

"The Uses of Anger"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

“The glory of the day was in her face,
The beauty of the night was in her eyes.”
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, st. 1 (1917).