These girls looked awfully bored to me. I saw them on the sun-roof, yawning and painting their nails and trying to keep up their Bermuda tans, and they seemed bored as hell. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (via quoteshelf)

There is no one more skilled in the art of painting than a coquettish woman. She makes up her hair, eyebrows, cheeks, and sometimes her breast, in such a way as to give an air of truth to that which is nothing but lies and paint. Caraccioli, Dictionnaire Critique (1768)