John Updike Quotes

Beauty can inspire miracles.

Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

I love bald men. Just because you've lost your fuzz don't mean you ain't a peach.

A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.

The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

All girls should feel beautiful.

I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.