Handsome Quotes - Page 16

• You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That's what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there's always a role for the Everyman.

  Billy Gardell

  Hero, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Utterance, Conformity

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.918, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Night, Wicked, Warm

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.202, Macmillan

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• Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?

  Robert Breault

  Tired, Sometimes, Wonder

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• I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Clothes, Riding, Different

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1419, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Attitude, Ugly, Prison

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.277, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

  John Noble

  Men, Age, Hollywood

  "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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• If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beautiful, Women, May

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Men, Doe

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Mother, Parenting, Looks

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.

  Emily Bronte

  I Love Him, Men, Fire

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

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• Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model

  Tarryn Fisher

  Real, Men, Easier

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• His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Queens, Clever, Looks

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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• Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

  Homer

  Mother, Strong, Powerful

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• If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Thinking, Pigs

  Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, Alexandre Dumas (2012). “The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle: The Wind in the Willows, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers”, p.425, Modern Library

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• Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

  Saadi

  Children, Thinking, Perfect

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• Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Women, Compliment

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• For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Justice, Grace

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• This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good.

  John D. MacDonald

  Girl, Strong, Hedging

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• When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

  Victor Hugo

  Wrinkles, Light, Grace

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• This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

  CJ Roberts

  Romance, Damsel In Distress, Distress

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• Robin is a handsome ephebic boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs. He is buoyant with energy and devoted to nothing on earth or in interplanetary space as much as to Bruce Wayne. He often stands with his legs spread, the genital region discreetly evident.

  Fredric Wertham

  Boys, Space, Energy

  Fredric Wertham (1972). “Seduction of the innocent”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.

  Leslie Jamison

  Beautiful, Color, Jail

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.72, Granta Books

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• If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.

  Ilona Andrews

  Couple, Greek, Luck

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.38, Penguin

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• For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Writing, Years

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