“Groups of girls are pretty, or not; they are seldom mixed.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 22
“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.”
As quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) edited by Rhoda Thomas Tripp

“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
16 August 1925
Enough Rope (1926)

“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
Amanda, Scene Six
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“There's lots of pretty girls in Mozambique.”
Song lyrics, Desire (1976), Mozambique

Variant: No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.