Pretty

Famous quotes containing the word pretty:

    What is your fortune, my pretty maid?
    “My face is my fortune, Sir,” she said.
    —Where Are You Going to, My Pretty Maid? Nursery rhyme.

    O my dear Candide! You knew Paquette, that pretty attendant of our august baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise, which produced these torments of hell by which you see me devoured; she was infected and may have died of it.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they’re doing pretty well, all things considered.
    Richard Louv (20th century)