# On Beauty

- Author: [Zadie Smith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith/on-beauty

## Quotes

> You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.

p. 167 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith/on-beauty/you-dont-have.md)

> The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

p. 424 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith/on-beauty/the-greatest-lie.md)

> He traced the genealogy of the feeling

p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith/on-beauty/he-traced-the.md)

> In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.

p. 398 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith/on-beauty/in-a-whisper.md)

> It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.

p. 54 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith/on-beauty/it-was-in-the.md)

> He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

p. 225 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith/on-beauty/he-was-bookish.md)

> A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.

p. 155 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zadie-smith/on-beauty/a-carefully-preserved.md)