Handsome Quotations

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.

I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

I did 'Good Morning America' with David Beckham. Oh, god, what a handsome devil that guy is.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again....

I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.

Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one.

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's such a goofball!

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.

The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is well-integrated into an overall scheme for a group of small museums.

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

I'm not for every woman, you know. Because a lot of women - I mean, obviously, your first thing is, 'What do you want your guy to look like?' And I'm not the tall, dark, handsome guy.

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.

By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

One of the daughters was married to a handsome young mulatto, who was present, and sang us some pretty songs, accompanying himself on the guitar.

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

She's cool with it. You know, it was her suggestion that I launch this campaign. We've been following the California recall situation and witnessing first-hand the connection that Arnold has made with the people. And why wouldn't he? He's like this handsome loveable guy with rich friends. It's such a political lock these days.

But what is even more astonishing is that corporations can live in an environment with little pricing power and still earn very handsome profits.

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Frugality is a handsome income.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influence in my life. He gave me much love and affection, and shortly after my first months of cello lessons, he was very encouraging. I remember him telling my father that some day my name would be up in lights.

For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form ... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

Who wouldn't fancy Brian Epstein? He was tall and handsome and had money and class.

I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.

Let’s just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

As soon as you opened the door it was obvious who it was, ... He was a very handsome man. ... A number of people have commented that he looked bigger than he actually was. Perhaps just knowing who he was seemed to magnify him ... I think he was a little larger than life.

Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech

Although the company is still growing at a pretty handsome rate, it hasn't been beating its numbers with substantial upside.

Except for con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank

You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man-I'm the second world's most handsome man!

None of it is done with make-up. Dean is aware of his body and very coordinated. He is a handsome man playing a distorted figure.

Not really, although I kind of went into a few chat rooms to research the character and a lot of the kids were very abrasive about me playing the character, because they didn't know me, they wanted Jude Law, or Ewan McGregor or someone more handsome basically.

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

Darius has a high, gorgeous voice. He's also handsome and young. With that all going on, one day Darius will be a big star. When the idea of an evening dedicated to Stevie Wonder was first proposed, however, my reaction was skeptical at best. But then Darius performed the program at New York's Lincoln Center and got raves. Typically, we seek out and develop unique programs, nothing that anyone has ever heard before, so the Steve Wonder program is unusual for Moab. Had it been performed more than once, we probably would not have considered it.

It's quarter-end. Everybody is now trying to make their portfolios look handsome (with window dressing).

By disposing of bad debt and restructuring itself into a joint-stock venture, ICBC posted handsome profits, which may help attract investors in its new share sale.

How would I like to be seen? Very endearing, charming, intelligent, handsome.

He's a handsome colt with a great temperament. We had him about seven months and he really handled himself well with all the preparation leading up to the sale.

He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

A very smooth-talking trial lawyer and handsome devil, I've got to say.

The have taken the lines out and made me really handsome

A handsome person, with perverted will, is a fine craft that's handled without skill

The company doesn't have a financial crisis at hand and pays a handsome dividend. The question is, Does the company become more efficient selling and manufacturing its products?

She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her paintings, he was handsome and good-but the more she thought about it, the more she longed to ravish his intelligence, defile his kindheartedness, and violate his powerless strength

I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

Anyway, since when are you shy? Just talk to him already!' ' 'And say what? Nice fiddling, handsome man?' 'Absolutely.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

There lived a sage in days of yore, And he a handsome pigtail wore; But wondered much and sorrowed more Because it hung behind him.

There lived a sage in days of yore,And he a handsome pigtail wore;But wondered much and sorrowed moreBecause it hung behind him.

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

However, Cinderella, in spite of her mean apparel, was a hundred times more handsome than her sisters, though they were always richly dressed.

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

I call'd the devil, and he came / And with wonder his form did I closely scan / He is not ugly, and is not lame / But really a handsome and charming man / A man in the prime of life is the devil / Obliging, a man of the world, and civil / A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate / He talks quite glibly of church and state.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.

Handsome is as handsome does

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

I was just learning to be by myself. He seemed to really see me, see through the bullshit...He was so handsome, and he could dance. I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender. He was so cool, so funny - I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence. I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type.'

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

He was so handsome,but he didn't look well.He reminded her of a cigarette.

No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.