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

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

  • Prettiness dies first.

    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
  • 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.

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

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

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

    Beautiful   Long   Soul  
    Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.82, Penguin
  • Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, and all - I have to humbly admit that I didn't understand the importance of it at all. It was Jean-Jacques Picart who explained it to me. They had a huge influence in that they showed that aestheticism could be different from prettiness, that there was beauty and that beauty was beyond pretty.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

    Love   Music   Beautiful  
    Boris Vian (2001). “I spit on your graves”, Canongate Books
  • In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

    Men   Age   Levity  
  • 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!

    Life   Death   Suicide  
    FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015
  • In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

    James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”
  • 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.

    Girl   Dating   Quirky  
  • 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.

    "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.
  • If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

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

    Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.112, Timber Press
  • Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

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

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

  • Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

    "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.
  • Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.

    Stars   Fall   Snow  
  • 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.

    Source: classic.esquire.com
  • It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

  • 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 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
  • 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.

    Beauty   Work   Mean  
  • 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.

  • A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.

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

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

    Mother   Children   Men  
  • I've found that when I was young, all the pretty girls at school got all the dates and went to all the big parties and everything because they were pretty. They never bothered to develop anything. And as they aged, their prettiness faded and they were left as middle-aged women who were very, very unhappy and disappointed. But I can't feel sorry for them because that was their own doing.

    Girl   Sorry   Party  
    Source: www.elle.com
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