Elinor Glyn Quotes

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.

I was studying tourism at college and wanted to travel the world as a tour guide - that was my dream! But actually, sometimes modeling feels quite similar, because I travel so much - probably even more than tour guiding.

Looks matter a lot, and it has always mattered. We always judge. I have not only been on the receiving end, but I have also judged others.

I'm fascinated by people's obsession with how they look and how humans really do judge you within the first few seconds of meeting you.

In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he'd head straight for a plastic surgeon, but in Cyrano's time, the nose was who he was, and it didn't matter that he was a brilliant poet, a brilliant swordsman, a brilliant man. His nose defined him.

A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

The adornment of the body is a human need.

I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty.

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

I've never played anyone who didn't like themselves. I don't care if they're unattractive, but it's important that they think of themselves as attractive. And I guess that's part of their charm.

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?

I pointed out that men, society looks at aging men and say they get more distinguished; some say they get more handsome, more authoritative, and so forth. I said it's unfair. It's the way it works. It's sadly not that was the when women age. Sadly.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.

Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go on & take

If all babies are so cute, how the hell do we have so many ugly people in the world?