Harriet Hubbard Ayer's book Quotes

“Where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? — Love's Labor Lost. The eyes appears to be more immediately connected with the soul than any other organ. A woman reflects every emotion, almost every thought from her two wonderful, priceless eyes, and no feature of her face is more a telltale of her nature. "Show me," says the old Chinese proverb, "a man's eyes, and I will tell you what he might have been. Show me his mouth, and I will tell you what he has been." The same is true of women. Up to thirty or thirty-five a woman may be actress enough to make her eyes tell one tale, while her life would reveal another; but little by little the true state of a woman's soul stands forth in the expression, the frankness, the furtiveness, the candor, or the boldness”
― Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Harriet Hubbard Ayer's book: A Complete and Authentic Treatise on the Laws of Health and Beauty

“It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell; there is no disputing it.”
― Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Harriet Hubbard Ayer's book: A Complete and Authentic Treatise on the Laws of Health and Beauty