Handsome Quotes - Page 6

• Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Names, Laughing

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Want, Trust Me

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 5, 1948.

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• When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beauty, Study, Be Good

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.380, Penguin

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• The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Marriage, Smart, Men

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• You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.

  Karen Maitland

  Love, Fall, Men

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• John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

  Hank Green

  Wise, Intelligent, Men

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Luck, Flaws

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.84, Penguin

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• We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Heart, Hug, Vivacious

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• I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Bulls, Kidnapped

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• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Kids, Men, Type

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2011.

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• Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Half, World

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

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• You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Strong, Morning, Yesterday

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• When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Twenties, Stones

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.308, Courier Corporation

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• It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

  Joseph Joubert

  Vanity, Would Be, Next

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• When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.

  Michael Caine

  Girl, Character, Mirrors

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• Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said. Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?" "I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Years, Six Year Olds

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• How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.197, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Handsome brother with a smooth goatee, makes me wonder why he act so ugly.

  LL Cool J

  Family, Brother, Ugly

  Song: Father, Album: Phenomenon

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• It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.

  Peter Jacobson

  Fun, Shooting, Josh

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Liberty, Accounts, Ought

  Murasaki Shikibu (1935). “Blue trousers. The lady of the boat. The bridge of dreams”

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• Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

  Quentin Crisp

  Sexy, Men, Matter

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• At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Sight, Expression

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.43

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• You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

  Courteney Cox

  Beautiful, Mother, Growing Up

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• The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.

  George Steinbrenner

  Men, Names, Guy

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• I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average?

  Bobby Lee

  Average, Guy, Mountain

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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