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Quotes About Attractiveness

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
~ David Hockney
For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
~ William Shakespeare
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
~ Truman Capote
It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
~ Jacques Audiard
No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.
~ George Farquhar
But sometimes that can make a girl so much more appealing. The beauty who doesn't know she's beautiful.
~ Unknown
My body has conditioned things, to some extent. The life of an attractive woman is different from that of a plain one. My hair, my eyes, the shape of my mouth, the contours of breast and thigh have all contributed.
~ Penelope Lively
The trouble with kind people is they're not sexy.
~ Philip Pullman
Satan's activity mimics his nature: he deceives by hiding the hideous nature of sin under a facade of attractiveness. He
~ David Jeremiah
You owe it to your public to remain fuckable.
~ Unknown
People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be. It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.
~ David Levithan
If you want to be loved, be lovable. It's a good place to start.
~ David Levithan
People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be. It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.
~ David Levithan
am always happiest when I am just attractive enough. Meaning: other people won't find me unattractive. Meaning: I make a positive impression. Meaning: my life is not defined by my attractiveness, because that brings its own perils as well as its own rewards.
~ David Levithan
A woman's happiness increases when the man brings more economic resources to the union and shows kindness, affection, and commitment. A man's happiness increases when the woman is more physically attractive than he is, and when she shows kindness, affection, and commitment.
~ David M. Buss
In part because of the evolutionary roots of women's sexual attractiveness, self-esteem is greatly influenced by how women feel about their bodies.
~ David M. Buss
Men prize physical attractiveness more than women when looking for a mate, which is why this is one of the critical issues in competition among women, and also why one of the tactics women most frequently use to derogate their sexual rivals is public putdowns regarding a rival's appearance.
~ David M. Buss
As women age, husbands show less sexual interest in them and experience less happiness with their sexual relationship. Men who perceive their wives as quite attractive, however, maintain high frequencies of sex and higher levels of sexual satisfaction
~ David M. Buss
The fact that women who are engaged in casual sex as opposed to committed mating shift their mating desires to favor a man's extravagant lifestyle, his physical attractiveness, his masculine body, and even his risk-taking, cocky "bad-boy" qualities tells us that women have specific psychological mechanisms designed for short-term mating.
~ David M. Buss
Women who succeed appear reproductively valuable by embodying physical and behavioral cues that signal their youth and physical attractiveness. Women who fail to fulfill these qualities lose a competitive edge. Because men place a premium on appearance, competition among women to attract men centers heavily on enhancing their physical attractiveness along youthful and healthful lines.
~ David M. Buss
At twenty-two, you are built for poverty and rejection. And you know why? Because you're good-looking. You might not realize it this morning, but thirty years from now, you will pull out pictures of yourself taken on this day and think, Why did nobody tell me I was so fucking attractive? You maybe can't see it now because you're comparing yourself to the person next to you, or two rows up. But you are stunning.
~ David Sedaris
I know it sounds calculating, but if you're not cute, you might as well be clever.
~ David Sedaris
At twenty-two, you are built for poverty and rejection. And you know why? Because you're good-looking. You might not realize it this morning, but thirty years from now, you will pull out pictures of yourself taken on this day and think, Why did nobody tell me I was so fucking attractive? You maybe can't see it now because you're comparing yourself to the person next to you, or two rows up. But you are stunning.
~ David Sedaris