Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Looks fade. Brains don't.

I prefer intellect and charm. Good looks only take you so far.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Youthful beauty is a poor indicator of long-term appeal in a man.

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

Really, I'm the type of girl, and I know other girls who are the types of girls who it's not about the chain, it's not about the car, not about the house or this, that, and the other that you think are impressing me. It's really the intellect. It's really stimulating my mind.

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

You can't worry about looks. It's about the inside at the end of the day because we're all going to get old and gray one day.

I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

I am not gonna say that a guy's looks make him have to try harder in any way. I don't believe that at all. I think if he is funny, smart and cool, he's all set. Looks are not very important to me.

I would rather be nuts than unattractive.

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.

If you're only trading on looks and your body, that's only going to go so far. But that was never my bag. I was always about the whole package.

I've always been attracted to more than just the way a woman looks and the way she's shaped.

There's a period in one's life when beauty is very important. For me, it was high school. But I had a grandmother who kept saying, 'Handsome is as handsome does.' That's always stuck with me.

What makes someone sexy in my mind is who they are. It's not necessarily how they look.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.