Jane Austen Quotes

I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

A sense of humor is important. I'm always attracted to a girl with confidence. In terms of looks, I don't have a type. I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I think a girl who is voluptuous is very beautiful.

If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.

I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

You change your mind Like a girl changes clothes

The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

A style similar to Song Hye Gyo's is my ideal type.

You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.

Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.