No matter what a woman's appearance may be it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day ah now that's a real treat.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts as for that subtle something that quality of air that emanation from old trees that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.