Prettiness Quotes

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building. (Robert Venturi)
A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting. View quote
Ann Brashares
She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze. View quote
Paul Bowles
Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness. View quote
Mary Oliver
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. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession. View quote
Jonathan Stroud
The Greeks believed that true beauty (as opposed to mere prettiness) was the offspring of these two opposing tendencies, which they personified in Apollo and Dionysus, their two gods of art. Great art is born when Apollonian form and Dionysian ecstasy are held in balance, when our dreams of order and abandon come together. One tendency uninformed by the other can bring forth only coldness or chaos-the stiffness of a Triumph tulip, the slackness of a wild rose. View quote
Michael Pollan