When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'Anton Chekhov
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.Jane Austen
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.Jane Austen
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.Jane Austen
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.Jane Austen
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.Fran Lebowitz