Handsome is that handsome does. [ Proverb ]
He is handsome that handsome doth. [ Proverb ]
An handsome bodied man in the face. [ Proverb ]
I've often wished that I had clear.
For life, six hundred pounds a year,
A handsome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end,
A terrace walk, and half a rood
Of land, set out to plant a wood. [ Swift ]
The present fashion is always handsome. [ Proverb ]
The devil was handsome when he was young. [ French Proverb ]
A handsome face is a mute recommendation.
O what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! [ William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor ]
And here where your praise might yield returns,
And a handsome word or two give help. [ Robert Browning ]
The hell for women who are only handsome is old age. [ Saint-Evremond ]
Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes).
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flashed an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chastened down the whole. [ Byron ]
A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure. [ Saadi ]
Better never have been handsome when young, than ugly when old. [ Proverb ]
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Dignities and honours set off merit, as good dress does handsome persons. [ Proverb ]
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Handsome widows, after a twelvemonth, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit. [ Balzac ]
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so. [ Rochefoucauld ]
We love handsome women from inclination, homely women from interest, and virtuous women from reason. [ Amelot ]
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. [ Hughes ]
If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was. [ Thackeray ]
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. [ Wycherley ]
He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, wise at forty, rich at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich. [ Proverb ]
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalkstones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. [ George Eliot ]
Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride. [ Emerson ]
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. [ Jeremy Collier ]