The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up…[in a letter]
She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.
Perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.[to Jocelyn]
I am drawn to beauty, Black, white, indeterminate, so long as they’re passionate and smart.
Girls must be so nice if they let guys do all those things to them.
Don’t you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You might not marry a girl just because she’s pretty. But my goodness, doesn’t it help?[to Esmond Sr.]
But Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. That is easy enough. The hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.
Being good at this kind of work is not very beautiful.
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
Beautiful things are fragile.
All the boys say I’m ugly. Mama was third runner-up in the Miss South Carolina pageant.[Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan]I wish you’d quit feeling sorry for yourself. Now, that’s ugly. Ugly is something that goes up inside you. It’s mean and hurtful, like them boys.[Constantine Jefferson]
