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Topic·Beautiful women✕clear

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

She Walks in Beauty · 1815

★ 1.1

Poem · Magazine

I met a Lady in the Meads Full beautiful, a faery's child Her hair was long, her foot was light And her eyes were wild—

1820

★ 1.1

Film · Crime comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Crime comedy · Comedy

Her hair was the color of gold in old paintings. She had a full set of curves and the kind of legs you'd like to suck on for a day. She was giving me a look I could feel in my hip pocket.

Lt. Frank Drebin

Naked Gun · 1988

★ 1.9

I think the peasant girl is more beautiful than a lady, in her dusty, patched blue skirt and bodice, which get the most delicate hues from weather, wind, and sun. But if she puts on a lady's dress, she loses her peculiar charm.

Vincent van Gogh

1885

★ 2.0

Novel · Modernist literature

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 2.2

Play · Tragedy (play)

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!

Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus · 1593

★ 3.5

Novel · Detective fiction

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

Raymond Chandler

1940

★ 3.5

Song · Great American songbook

A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day.

A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody · 1919

★ 3.6

Film · Teen (film) · Romantic comedy (film) · Teen · Romantic comedy

Just 'cause you're beautiful, that doesn't mean that you can treat people like they don't matter.

10 Things I Hate About You · 1999

★ 3.6

Film · Spy (film) · Thriller (film) · Spy · Thriller

The moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her.

Roger Thornhill

North by Northwest · 1959

★ 3.7

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

The Godfather · 1972

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

You’re rather...attractive, for a beautiful girl with a great body.

Caddyshack · 1980

★ 3.7

Pretty girls make graves.

The Dharma Bums · 1958

★ 3.8

But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 7.2