"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Beauty More From Ambrose Bierce "Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent." "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." "Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced." More In Beauty "My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I’m not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty – I read a lot, I try to learn."― Bar Refaeli "Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin."― Gwyneth Paltrow "Sometimes I think I might not have written ‘The Age of Miracles’ if I hadn’t grown up in California, if I hadn’t been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial."― Karen Thompson Walker