Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.

Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me.

It's always good to be around nice-looking people.

It is very important for an actor to look physically attractive.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

Being attractive in life is not something as static as a single frame in a picture.

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

Beauty is everywhere and it comes in all different forms. Many times I don't find a size zero girl amazing, I find her really shockingly thin or small, and I think that beauty comes in all different forms. Beauty is about how you feel. There are plenty of people who are amazing to look at who are super beautiful, and then there are plenty of people who are easy to look at who are not beautiful at all, they open their mouth or they have an attitude or they are cruel, and they look hideous suddenly.

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.

It's nice to be one of the most beautiful people.

Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.

Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.

Most people can be made to look beautiful - someone can do your hair nice and put some make-up on - but being sexy is something inside and not everybody has it. I don't think I ever really had it, a lot of it is to do with confidence.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.

I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.

If you think you are beautiful in a scene, you will come across as beautiful. I don't think looks are important; I think what's important is if someone is sexy.