Quotes / Beauty Is Bad

Beauty is never benign. At best, it's warning you not to lick it.

— Ami, professional assassin, A Girl and Her Fed

What do I look to you? A beautiful girl? Perhaps an ugly, misshapen monster? It's too bad I can't tell.

— The Main Antagonist, during the Date A Live crossover campiagn, Ais Catastrophe, of Memoria Freese

The first time we saw her, I knew she was trouble. Far too cute to be anything but evil.

— Carver Hawke, Dragon Age II

Komachi suffered the cruelest punishment of all— the loss of her beauty. Instead of dying young, like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy, and leaving a beautiful memory, she lived to be a hundred. After the death of Captain Shosho she was spurned and driven from court and ended up a tattered, crazed beggar woman. In folk legend and Noh plays she is portrayed as an ancient withered crone, hideously ugly, haunted by the unhappy spirits of the men who died for love of her. [..] At least in legend, if not in real life, Komachi had to be punished for her fearsome powers.

— Lesley Downer, writing about Ono no Komachi

We call the ordinary biological attraction to the opposite sex "sin" and we call our younger females "sluts" because young (and older) men are attracted to them and wonder why on earth we are losing our next generations.

— Diary of an Autodidact, Modesty Culture Part 5: The Faulty Definition of "Lust"

Megyn Kelly is the prototype of the all-American Girl - blonde, buxum, beautiful and reeking of wholesome, down home midwest American values and Christianity. This is also why she is so dangerous.

—Karl Svenson. ''Megyn Kelly - Queen of Media Whores

She was beautiful—there can be no doubt of that. But did I desire her, even for a moment? No. For within that attractive trapping was evil—pure evil, intent on bringing humanity to ruin. If a man dared touch any part of it, his own flesh would rot and fall away. She was a lethal poison. She was a witch.

—Werner's speech about Lyblac, Octopath Traveler

As though nature concealed a trap, Cathy had from the first a face of innocence.

—East of Eden

"You're far too beautiful to be good."

—Lord Wilmot, Earl of Rochester to Barbara, Countess Castlemaine, Whitehall

"A man with a face that perfectly symmetrical has no soul."

— Paula on Nathaniel, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

"She was gorgeous. I don't mean "cutest girl at the club" gorgeous. I mean that she looked like a literal goddess. The details almost didn't matter. Tall. Dark hair. Skin like milk, like polished ivory. Eyes as blue as the twilight sky. She wore a gown of red silk, with a neckline that plunged gorgeously. Jewels touched her throat, her ears. Her hair was piled up on her head, occasional loose ringlets falling out. Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold - Athena heading out on a Friday night. It took me a good five or six seconds of staring to realize that there was something beneath that beauty that I did not like at all. Her loveliness itself, I realized, was a weapon - such creatures as she had driven men literally insane with desire and obsession. More to the point, I knew that her beauty was only skin-deep. I knew what lurked beneath."

— Harry Dresden on Arianna Ortega, Changes

"A pretty girl is not well behaved!"

—Mephisto, Faust

"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked"

—Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"Behold! Such beauty! Such a pure form! Such an exquisite physique! Such stunning features! Yes, I've pretty much got it all. Though there is one teensy, tiny thing I lack... namely, mercy."

—Girahim, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Who are you, pretty-lady made of poison?

—Claptrap's Consciousness to Nisha, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!

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