Donna Tartt Quotes

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Beauty is not everything!

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

The Beauty raised her eyes, the only part of her that was truly beautiful.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think: "Not bad, they're okay," and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it; and they just — and they turn into something so beautiful.

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

Are men shallow? Should we be looking for inner beauty? Ha, ha.

A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Hey,' he said. It came out hard and frustrated. 'I told you to smile because you're pretty when you smile.' She walked to the bottom of the steps, then looked back at him. 'It'd be better if you thought I was pretty when I don't.