Cheeky Beauty Quotes & Sayings

What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy. — Charles Dickens

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film. — Mike Leigh

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. — John Gregory Dunne

I don't think Henrietta suits anyone, she replied. Then she offered him her cheeky smile, and Alex saw in an instant why Dunford was falling like a rock for this girl. She had spirit, and although she didn't realize it yet, she had beauty, and Dunford didn't have a chance. — Julia Quinn

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains. — Geoff Mulgan

A definition of beauty that more accurately summed up my feelings for Chloe was delivered by Stendhal. "Beauty is the promise of happiness," he wrote, pointing to the way Chloe's face alluded to qualities I identified with a good life: there was humor in her nose, her freckles spoke of innocence, and her teeth suggested a casual, cheeky disregard for convention. — Alain De Botton

Stories as written are progressive, sentence must build upon sentence as brick upon brick, yet the beauty of this life in its endless mystery is circular. Sun & moon, spheres endlessly circling. Black man, full circle; white man, bisected circle; life, the third circle, on & on, & round & round. — Richard Flanagan

But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece. — Pearl Cleage