Top 41 Quotes About Prettiness
#1. The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure
the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.
Laura Amy Schlitz
#2. A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
Ann Brashares
#3. The thing about uniquely pretty girls is that their prettiness cares nothing for time or place. It cannot be rescheduled or relocated. They are pretty wherever they go, whenever they get there. It can be quite distracting.
David Arnold
#4. Sylvia's inherent appreciation for beauty as both artist and consumer is evident in her journals and letters ... ... .she wrote beautifully about clothes. She wrote about them with irony and wit mixed in with all the rococo prettiness.
Elizabeth Winder
#6. I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.
Jonathan Stroud
#7. In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.
James Agate
#8. She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.
Paul Bowles
#9. They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness;
Elizabeth Gaskell
#10. Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain ... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.
Paul Horn
#12. Beauty lies in the purity of Heart,looking good is just called prettiness.
Vansh Wadhwani
#13. Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Lord Chesterfield
#14. Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths
Kanan Makiya
#15. Grief had refined her girlish prettiness, she had the clear decided looks of a woman who had seen her hopes destroyed.
Philippa Gregory
#16. She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.
Chelsea Cain
#17. I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.
S.A. Tawks
#18. May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this - does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?43
Steven J. Lawson
#19. It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
Robert Venturi
#20. A person who's looking at a mountain far away doesn't notice the prettiness of a dandelion in front of them. A person who's looking at a dandelion in front of them doesn't see the beauty of a mountain far away.
Naoki Higashida
#21. Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.
Anne Gracie
#22. Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself, She turns to favor and to prettiness.
William Shakespeare
#23. Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
Oscar Wilde
#24. Prettiness is terribly vulgar nowadays, and it is not every one that knows just the sort of ugliness that has chic.
Henry James
#25. Young men, romantics, call it love at first sight, but even then I understood it was only prettiness. Young men see pretty, and they start hanging all the things they hope you'll be onto you till you're so weighed down you can't move.
Joshilyn Jackson
#26. Her prettiness was factual and obvious, the way a flag was patriotic or a puppy was cute - not an interesting prettiness, but also not contingent on taste.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#27. An elegant woman, with a refinement that makes mere prettiness seem redundant.
Hilary Mantel
#28. A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.
Richard Eder
#29. The weird thing is that I cared about him at the same time I found him gross. He grossed me out ... And that I was so deep in my problem that I couldn't accept real, genuine, nonsexual or nonromantic or non-prettiness-type interest in me even if it was offered to me.
David Foster Wallace
#30. Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.
Ann Powers
#32.
Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.
Mary Oliver
#33. We've been told prettiness will somehow make us better - and more loved. Do we really want to bear the mark of physical beauty? Or do we just want to be loved?
Kate Wicker
#34. The Russian drove. New York turned in his seat to make sure I wasn't peeking. He should have been a surfer. His face was full of masculine prettiness and immensely likeable. Which, by horror's law of inverted aesthetics, made me sure we were being taken to our deaths.
Glen Duncan
#35. A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in Laura: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not actual, not lasting.
Tennessee Williams
#36. She had had a fragile, morning glory prettiness, but it had closed in on itself before anyone noticed.
K. D. Miller
#37. Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
Beverley Nichols
#38. Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.
Jane Swisshelm
#39. To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen
#40. The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
Elizabeth Gaskell
