Paul Bowles Quotes

I'm not just a pretty face.

Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

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 not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.

I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it definitely helps.

There is nothing more beautiful than personality wrinkles.

I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.

In fashion, it’s always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.

Good looks only take you so far. You don't have to be the best looking guy.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

It’s not Brittney’s face, not her smile, not even her eyes. All of that surface stuff made the world see her as beautiful, but it was the deeper stuff that made her different.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.