Amin Maalouf Quotes

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.

To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

My sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits but also drawbacks - like, you're on a ticking clock, because the day you stop being supermodel-beautiful is the day that everything the world has to offer you is no longer being offered.

That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.

The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

Framework, (...) addiction to female beauty and sex; deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic security in return; (.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.

A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.

She's the only woman I've ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she's everything a woman should be. She's blonde and beautiful, she's got the most incredible legs - et cetera, et cetera. And she's French as well. (on Brigitte Bardot)

People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.

Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."

While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

I'm not really trying to be sexy. I try to explain to girls that you don't have to have long blond hair and big boobs.

I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.