Quotes of: Being-pretty Keyword

Good fortune wears a pretty dress but its underclothes do not bear investigation.

Russian

Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you? Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pr...

Detachment

In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.

Fear: A Novel of World War I

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

Fairest

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

Beach Music

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

All the Pretty Horses

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

All the Pretty Horses

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

Imaginary Girls

Beauty is not always as perfect as we imagine it to be, but it can be damn close if we learn to accept the scary parts or the ugly parts.

Isn't It Pretty To Think So?

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

Roderick Hudson

In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.

Such a Pretty Girl

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

Les Diaboliques

She's pretty in a way that distracts me just like she did in the Skiz ring. No, pretty's not the right word. Beautiful.

Legend

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Lady Audley's Secret

Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.

Oracle's Moon

Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.

Papa Was A Gypsy

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

Tender Is the Night

Lucky! I can only eat glitter and rainbows. Darn my sensitive stomach!

Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great