Pretty

Famous quotes containing the word pretty:

    “Hark, hark, with what a pretty throat
    Poor robin-redbreast tunes his note;
    Hark, how the jolly cuckoos sing
    Cuckoo—to welcome in the spring!
    Cuckoo—to welcome in the spring!”
    —John Lyly (1553–1606)

    “My maiden Isabel,
    Reflaring rosabel.
    The fragrant camomel;
    The ruddy rosary,
    The sovereign rosemary,
    The pretty strawberry;
    The columbine, the nept,
    The jelofer well set,
    The proper violet:”
    —John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    “It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.”
    —Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)