Mark Twain Quotes About Beauty

• One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

  Mark Twain

  Beauty, Appreciation, Overestimate

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents, and Adventures as They Appeared to the Author”, p.546

• One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.337

• We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

  Mark Twain

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sight

  Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.71, Courier Corporation

• A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

  Mark Twain

  Beauty, Baby, Noses

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2422, Delphi Classics

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