Joseph Addison Quotes

Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?" He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.

I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.

It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it

There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.

You are so beautiful to me.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think: "Not bad, they're okay," and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it; and they just — and they turn into something so beautiful.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.