Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Beauty

Quotes about: Beauty

• The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Beautiful, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.894, Delphi Classics

• The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Men, Stature

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.525

• Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Truth, Believe

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

• Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Sex, Confused

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.407

• The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Men, Firsts

• We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Faces, Firsts

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