Quotes About A Pretty Face

“Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.”

— Robert Henri

“She refused to be one of those girls who fell for a pretty face that just white-washed a total jack-ass underneath. She could ogle, but she would not fall until she knew he deserved her.”

— Kimberly Kinrade

“Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.”

— Emily Gabriela Vira

“A pretty face rarely belongs to a handsome heart.”

— Colin Tegerdine

“Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.”

— Drake

“You will see the world. You will have love affairs with boys who see past a pretty face. You will be strong. You will call and tell me about it.”

— Laura Ruby

“It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.”

— Laura Ruby

“Being exposed to those beauty queens and Praying Mantises at the same time made me ask myself some hard questions. Would I have been so radical had I not been so fat? Could I have been one of the women on the other side parading my beauty of which I was so proud? As I stood there holding my JUDGE MEAT NOT WOMEN picket sign, I recalled all the people who had said to me throughout my life, "You've got such a pretty face." But they never finished the thought. The whole phrase is "You've got such a pretty face, too bad you're fat." But what if I weren't fat? Would I still have attacked this "Meat Parade" so fiercely? The truth is, my fat has informed my politics. And while I'd like to think I would have been just as ardent in my opposition to the objectification of women had I been thin, I'll never know for sure.”

— Camryn Manheim

“A pretty face can sometimes hide an evil mind.”

— Thomas Amo

“She was intelligent, accomplished, beautiful. She was everything I could have asked for in a woman. But she was a king maker. She wanted power. She must have thought her only path to the throne was through Kastor.'
'My honourable barbarian. I wouldn't have picked that as your type.'
'Type?'
'A pretty face, a devious mind and a ruthless nature.”

— C.S. Pacat

“I'd like to keep my pretty face intact." The bouncer chortled. "And you do have a pretty face.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.”

— Dennis Lehane

“Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.”

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“I've said more nonsex words to Harlow in the past five minutes than I did the entire time she was in Canada, but I'm surprised to find that not only is she easy to talk to, she's fun. "And, my impression of you is ever evolving, now that you aren't just a pretty face in my lap."
"You're one classy motherfucker, Finn."
"This speaking thing does wonders for expanding our horizons.”

— Christina Lauren

“Why don't you just kill me?"
"That, my dear, would be a waste." He steps forward and I realize his hands are sheathed in white leather gloves. He tips my chin up with one finger. "Besides, it'd be a shame to lose such a pretty face.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump.”

— Virginia Woolf

“No man will love you, though you gave your life for him, unless you have a pretty face. So (might it not be?), the gods will not love you (however you try to pleasure them, and whatever you suffer) unless you have that beauty of soul. In either race. for the love of men or the love of a god, the winners and losers are marked out from birth. We bring our ugliness, in both kinds, with us into the world, with it our destiny.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy.”

— Jim Butcher

“It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon.”

— Julian McMahon

“I'm more than just a pretty face, I can tell you that much, he says with a wink”

— Karina Halle

“People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.”

— Aaron Tveit

“People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.”

— Kate Moss

“And I admire that. A lot. The more I'm around her, the more obvious it becomes that there's a lot more to her than a shy smile and a pretty face.”

— M. Leighton

“I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.”

— Sophia Bush

“I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.”

— Grace Park

“I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face.”

— Jane Seymour

“It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.”

— Julie Burchill

“You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.”

— Nancy Friday

“Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.”

— Vidya Balan

“Attraction is so much more than a pretty face. It's face is passion, attitude, kindness, & faith.”

— Charles F. Glassman

“No, he had to remember she was an assassin with the blessing of a pretty face and sharp wits. She washed her hands with blood, and was just as likely to slit his throat as offer him a kind word.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has sat down by mistake.”

— Victor Hugo

“Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.”

— Diane Kruger

“It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one drop of joy. But oh god was it delicious when it fell into her lap for a little while. (Such a pretty face) she muses (with such a bruised and battered soul). When the dawn of a promise fades into the dusk of reality, all that remains is the nightmare. Sweet, sweet loneliness. Shadows come to play and prey on her beaten mind. Her lovely little dreams of poison.”

— Solange Nicole

“A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.”

— Immortal Technique

“I can trust you, Jessie, but you're clearly not well enough to go. Which is unfortunate, since Aloysius always had a weakness for a pretty face."
"Even more reason why I should go," said Will.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Too easily impressed," Evanna tutted, resuming her former appearance. "You shouldn't judge by what's on the outside. Only a fool falls for a pretty face. Are you fools?”

— Darren Shan

“I am the hit-maker, the record-breaker. I got style and grace, a pretty face. I'll make your back crack, your liver quiver.”

— Dusty Rhodes

“A pretty face, don't make a pretty heart.”

— Robert Palmer

“She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.”

— Avril Lavigne

“Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.”

— Johnny Ramistella

“From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.”

— Coco Rocha

“Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.”

— David Hockney

“I hate high fashion. I hate that we reward people for being genetic freaks. You hear the guys announcing the runway shows saying, 'A pretty face is your best asset this season.' And what? Ugly girls had a free ride last year?”

— Janeane Garofalo

“An old monkey never makes a pretty face.”

— Francois Rabelais

“So it's Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," which is, you know, really a love song, but what we see on stage is we see one puppet that's got a ridiculous blonde wig on and she looks ridiculous, and next to her is a head that's just a piece of fabric with a pretty face on it.”

— Brian Henson

“Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?”

— William C. Brown

“You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.”

— Chris Rock

“The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.”

— Kirk Douglas