A bloody sword is a beautiful thing.

— George R.R. Martin

A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty because she was rich. You can buy anything with money, even people, even... beauty.

— Bruce Crown

A body without compassion is like the rose without the scent.

— Ansul Noor

A bore or an Eggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

— Tana French

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the pink-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Accept the universes the gods gave it to you. If the gods wanted to give you something else They’d have done it. If there are other matters and other worlds There are.

— Alberto Caeiro

A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Hus's. There is no beauty one may not balance by an equal ugliness. The warthog and the hyena, the tapeworm and the stink horn, are equally God's creations. Nothing you have said points to anything but a cold indifference towards us of this order in which we live. Beauty happens; it is not given. Pain, suffering, happiness; there is no heed. Only in the heart of man burns the fire of righteousness.

— H.G. Wells

A change in hairstyle gives a new look.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A charming girl gets more proposals than a beautiful girl.

— Amit Kalantri