"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Beauty More From Ambrose Bierce "Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance." "Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name." "Dawn: When men of reason go to bed." More In Beauty "Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."― Jean-Luc Godard "I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals."― Brigitte Bardot "Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."― David Hume