The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even ones own even more, ones own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. – Katherine Anne Porter
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. – George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell