Drink, pretty creature, drink! [ Wordsworth ]
A pretty pig makes an ugly old sow. [ Proverb ]
Everything is pretty that is young. [ Richardson ]
Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again. [ Robert Herrick ]
Ye pretty daughters of the earth and sun. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
But love is blind and lovers can not see
The pretty follies that themselves commit. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II. Sc. 6 ]
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty. [ Mme. de Girardin ]
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form. [ William Shakespeare ]
To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes,
And give as soft attachment to thy senses,
As infants empty of all thought. [ William Shakespeare ]
Beauty? thou pretty plaything! dear deceit,
That steals so softly over the stripling's heart
And gives it a new pulse unknown before! [ Blair ]
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. [ Addison ]
You are a pretty fellow to ride a goose a gallop. [ Proverb ]
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. [ Pope ]
A pretty fellow, to make an axle-tree for an oven! [ Proverb ]
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands. [ Sheridan ]
Dress up even a little toad and it will look pretty. [ Proverb ]
A little, tiny, pretty, witty, charming darling she. [ Lucretius ]
It is very pretty to see a poor man give to the rich. [ Proverb ]
The smiles of a pretty woman are the tears of the purse. [ Italian Proverb ]
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace.
Secret joys and secret smiles. Little pretty infant wiles. [ William Blake ]
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume. [ Heinrich Heine ]
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Women ask if a man is discreet, as men ask if a woman is pretty.
He's a pretty fellow of an orator that makes panegyric of himself. [ Proverb ]
Libertines are hideous spiders, that often catch pretty butterflies. [ Diderot ]
Pretty women are like sovereigns: one flatters them only through interest.
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. [ Antoine Berryer ]
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. [ Haliburton ]
What pretty things men will make for money, quoth the old woman, when she saw a monkey. [ Proverb ]
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is pretty certain that she has his. [ G. D. Prentice ]
The way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to some one else if she is plain. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
All day the rain bathed the dark hyacinths in vain; the flood may pour from morn till night, nor wash the pretty Indian white. [ Hafiz ]
The law is a pretty bird, and has charming wings. It would be quite a bird of paradise if it did not carry such a terrible bill. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
The divine right of beauty is the only divine right a man can acknowledge, and a pretty woman the only tyrant he is not authorized to resist. [ Junius ]
No woman, plain or pretty, has any commonsense at all. Common-sense is the privilege of our sex and we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry. [ Pope ]
That same dew, which sometime on the buds was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes, like tears that did their own disgrace bewail. [ William Shakespeare ]
A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport. [ D'Argens ]
Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]
With a pretty face and the freshness of twenty, a woman, however shallow she may be, makes many conquests, but does not retain them: with cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones. [ A. Dupuy ]
The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]