Anatole France Quotes

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.

Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age.... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.

Our opponent [Cory Aquino] does not put on any make up. She does not have her fingernails manicured. You know gays. They are for beauty. Filipinos who like beauty, love and God are for Marcos.

If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.

I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.

It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken.

I know [my breasts] have opened doors for me, let’s be real.

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

I think a lot of female actors have a real fear of not looking their best. They learn to prize their vanity over a role in which they have to look like a moron. They're worried they'll damage their sex appeal. Thankfully, I have no problem looking like a moron!

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world.

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.