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)