Sayings about Attractiveness
Attractiveness is better than beauty. ~ Yiddish Proverb
A woman is attractive when she is somebody else’s wife. ~ Zimbabwean Proverb
There’s only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~ Traditional Proverb
Pretty wife, old wine — many friends. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one. ~ Russian Proverb
She is like a road — pretty, but crooked. ~ Cameroonian Proverb
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further off than the roar of a lion. ~ Arabian Proverb
The devil was good looking at eighteen, and course tea makes a bitter first cup. ~ Japanese Proverb
Her father’s fortune will make the ugliest girl attractive. ~ Spanish Proverb
When he was fifteen the devil was a good looking boy. ~ French Proverb
A husband should not talk of pretty girls in front of his wife. ~ Cambodian Proverb
Quotations about Attractiveness
There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: “Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.” ~ Ninon de L’Enclos
If you’re an attractive guy, everyone thinks you’re successful just because of the way you look. ~ James Marsden
The moment somebody says to me, “This is very risky,” is the moment it becomes attractive to me. ~ Kate Capshaw
The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players. ~ Anna Kournikova
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. ~ Thomas Hughes
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. ~ Charles de Gaulle
Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. ~ Sam Levenson
I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways. ~ E. Lynn Linton
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction. ~ Anne Frank
The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them — no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.~ Edward Fredkin’s Paradox
A woman’s natural quality is to attract, and having attracted to enchain; and how influential she may be for good or evil, the history of every age makes clear. ~ Mrs. Hugh R. Haweis
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. ~ Christian Dior
On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe. ~ Cyrus Augustus Bartol
Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.~ Ralph Charell
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it. ~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
Women and flowers are made to beloved for their beauty and sweetness, rather than themselves to love. ~ Ninon de L’Enclos
Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress: a door ever open attracts no young suitor. ~ Martial
Military glory — the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. ~ Oscar Wilde
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. ~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
A pretty, silly, self-conceited woman will very often be far more courted, and seemingly far more liked and admired, than a woman of infinitely higher charms. All the while the men do not like her a tenth part as well. ~ Charles Buxton
Though God’s attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty’s love. ~ Edmund Spenser
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest. ~ Henry David Thoreau
That hook of wiving, fairness which strikes the eye. ~ William Shakespeare
I like villains because there’s something so attractive about a committed person — they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They’re motivated. ~ Russell Crowe
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty. ~ Madame Delphine Gay de Girardin
We’re able to judge attractiveness with surprising speed and on the basis of very little information. ~ Ingrid Olson
The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. ~ Victor Hugo
When confronted with two evils, a man will always choose the most attractive. ~ Author Unknown
The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain. ~ Leigh Hunt
She carried about her an indefinable air of having been used to love, or admiration probably, of men as well as women, which the most exquisitely modest women will sometimes wear, and which is unmistakable as it is alluring to the eye. ~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion’s mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur;–these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty. ~ Joanna Baillie
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. ~ George Bernard Shaw
A Code of Honor — never approach a friend’s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she’s really attractive. ~ Bruce J Freidmen
Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
