“.. her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.”

“A woman always exaggerates her beauty and its influence when they are past; and it was a perpetual grief to think what her pretty face might have done for her.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of.
Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

“She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.”

Paul Bowles book The Sheltering Sky

“I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

“He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're…"

"Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“Never trust her at any time, when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.”
Infidi maris insidis virisque dolumque ut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credant subdola cum ridet placidi pellacia ponti.

Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher

“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

“Animated the face might have been beautiful — any set of features can support beauty — but even a superb makeup job could not have made her pretty.”

Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author

“Maureen clapped her hands together. "Oh," she said in her elfin little voice. "It's pretty."
"Pretty?" Simon looked quickly at the hunched shape on top of the concrete block. "Maureen, what the hell-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels