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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen
US politician (1896 - 1969)

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
English novelist (1775 - 1817)

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Evelyn Waugh
English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966)

A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen
US politician (1896 - 1969)

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

John Viscount Morley

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

Sacha Guitry
(1885 - 1957)

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard
(1868 - 1930)

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester.

Morticia Addams - from the Addams Family movie

The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin, in My Autobiography (1964)
British actor, director, & screenwriter (1889 - 1977)

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Dave Barry
US columnist & humorist (1947 - )

But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty
English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719)

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916)

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.

Thomas Carlyle
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

John Morley

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