“It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.”

“Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

“Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.”

Henry De Montherlant (1895–1972) French writer

“Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

“… the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.”

Anita Desai (1937) Indian novelist

“The fact that a thesis is flawed does not mean that we should not invest in it as long as other people believe in it and there is a large group of people left to be convinced. The point was made by John Maynard Keynes when he compared the stock market to a beauty contest where the winner is not the most beautiful contestant but the one whom the greatest number of people consider beautiful. Where I have something significant to add is in pointing out that it pays to look for the flaws; if we find them, we are ahead of the game because we can limit our losses when the market also discovers what we already know. It is when we are unaware of what could go wrong that we have to worry.”

George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.”

George Eliot book Adam Bede

“Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.”

Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher

“The flowers anew returning seasons bring!
But beauty faded has no second spring.”

Ambrose Philips (1674–1749) Anglo-Irish poet and politician

“We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses,
Dewy as the morning and colored like the dawn.”

Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) American artist