pretty quotes

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression'as prettyas an airport'.

- Douglas Noe«  l Adams
  The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch.1.

it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat

-Nikki in full Yolande CorneliaGiovanni,Jr Giovanni
  Black Judgement,'Woman Poem'.

Her occasional pretty and picturesque use of dialect wordsthose terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

-Thomas Hardy
  The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch.20.

   Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we aretooluckyor toosuccessfulor toopretty, ourmisery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

- Erica ne  e Mann Jong
  How To SaveYour Own Life.

   When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adamsat under theTree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devilwhispered behind theleaves,'It'spretty, but is it Art?'

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Conundrum of the Workshops'.

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

- Samuel Pepys
  Diary entry, 21 Mar. US  novelist.  His  best-known  work  of  fiction  is The  Moviegoer (1961),  but  he  wrote  several  novels,  and  volumes  of  collected essays and non-fiction.

Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.

- Marcel Proust
' 1925  A la recherche du temps perdu,'Albertine disparue'.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. See Marlowe 553:17.

- Sir Walter Raleigh
c.1592  'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd', a response to Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love', attributed to Raleigh.

  Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

- Pierre Auguste Renoir
Quoted in Ian Chilvers and Harold Osborne (eds) The Oxford Dictionary of Art (1994).

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where you are.

-J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.10.

Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you.

- Anne ne  e Harvey Sexton
  All My Pretty Ones,'All My Pretty Ones'.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  In the Observer,15 Apr.