Beauty is a boon to one but bane to many

One cannot say with certainty that whether beauty, strength or intelligence, is boon or bane, until one analyze that endowments on one’s deathbed.

Life is like a gooseberry; enjoy it with a pinch a salt

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate."

"I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!

Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful