“A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.”
“A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.”
“I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.”
“People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.”
“She’s beautiful—broken and battered, still the most beautiful woman in the world to me—the only woman in the world for me.”
“I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.”