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Prettiness dies first. -- George Herbert
Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female' -- Diana Vreeland
A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust. -- Richard Eder
She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze. -- Paul Bowles
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. -- Ann Brashares
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things? -- Beverley Nichols
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. -- James Agate
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. -- 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. -- Lord Chesterfield
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace. -- George Eliot
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. -- Jane Swisshelm
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Laura Amy Schlitz
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. -- Oscar Wilde
A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker. -- Jeanine Larmoth
Beauty lies in the purity of Heart,looking good is just called prettiness. -- Vansh Wadhwani
Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats. -- Ann Powers
I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty. -- Paul Horn
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. -- Robert Benton
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. -- Mary Oliver

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