#attractiveness

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

#attractiveness #bar #bribes #feet #highest

God damn it," Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. "Aren't we all just too good-looking for words. ↗

— John Scalzi

#food

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#discovered #else #loses #someone #something

Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#attractiveness #beauty

A girl can still admire, can’t she? Even those who can’t afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasn’t for me didn’t mean I couldn’t covet the merchandise. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#humor #love #male-beauty #romance #sex-appeal

Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me," thought the princess, and she turned away and went on reading. Julie, however, was not flattering her friend: indeed, the princess's eyes, large, deep, and luminous (sometimes it was as if rays of light came from them in sheaves), were so beautiful that very often, despite the unattractiveness of the whole face, those eyes were more attractive than beauty. But the princess had never seen the good expression of thise eyes, the expression they had in moments when she was not thinking of herself. As with all people, the moment she looked in the mirror, her face assumed a strained, unnatural, bad expression. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#ugliness #unattractiveness #beauty

Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#attractiveness #beauty #enduring #illusion #richelle

That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#women #sexy

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside". ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#inner-beauty #beauty

Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself. ↗

— Robert Galbraith

#human-behaviour #money #partners #psychology #relationship