Prettiness Quotes

• You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.

  Erin McKean

  Mother, Children, Men

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• Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

  Natalie Portman

  Cute, Personality, Shining

  "Natalie Portman--Cluttered and Loving It". Interview with Ted Demme, Ingrid Sischy, www.oocities.org. March 1996.

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• Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

  Robert Benton

  Areas

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

  Robert Venturi

  Building, Unusual

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• A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.

  Richard Eder

  Dust, Years, Chalk

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• 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

  Turns, Justify, Maxims

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.498

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• She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

  Paul Bowles

  Intensity, Saved

  Paul Bowles (2011). “The Sheltering Sky”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.

  Bobbi Brown

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Prettiness dies first.

  George Herbert

  Firsts, Dies

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.317

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• A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

  Ann Brashares

  Beautiful, Long, Soul

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.82, Penguin

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• It doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.

  Duane Hanson

  Meaningful, Art, Sculptors

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• 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. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Vitality, Weak

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.798, GENERAL PRESS

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• Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

  Diana Vreeland

  Space, Empowering, Women Empowerment

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• A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.

  Jeanine Larmoth

  Eye, Unique, Curves

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• Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Eye, Shadow, Sunglasses

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Life

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• There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

  Boris Vian

  Love, Music, Beautiful

  Boris Vian (2001). “I spit on your graves”, Canongate Books

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• Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you're mean.

  Katie Holmes

  Mean Girls, Hate, Mean People

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• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Lovely, Arms

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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• Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• 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

  Beauty, Work, Mean

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• Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

  Beverley Nichols

  Laughter, Finding Yourself, Bursting

  Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.112, Timber Press

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• To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Things In Life, Creating

  "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

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• It's not that I find it hard to meet girls - they do come up and chat me up from time to time. Sometimes I'm interested, I tend not to go for the prettier ones. I prefer the quirkier types.

  Rupert Grint

  Girl, Dating, Quirky

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