Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.

If you really want to flex, you have to be real.

I think beauty is not just about what we put on our heads or on our faces or what we wear: it's deeper than that, and if we can celebrate that, celebrate the women, not just the superficiality... I think it would be really gorgeous.

I've never gone out and courted favors. I've never gone out to be booed, either. It's just me being myself.

I don't always look so beautiful.

I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

You have to be honest about who you are.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

I'm not the beautiful one.

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

Be content to seem what you really are.