Sarah Dessen 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.

Beauty is only skin deep.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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

I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.

You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.

Purity of the spirit is important. A lot of people don't focus on what's going on inside, and no matter what they look like, even sometimes when people do all this wonderful work or they are blessed naturally to look good on the outside, if their spirit is ugly - I don't care how fine you are, if you're ugly on the inside, then you're uglier.

Barba non facit philosophum

Virtue is not photogenic.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

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

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

A pretty face, don't make a pretty heart.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Fa&#231ade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.

The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.