Ifs Quote by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“An old expression--'she looks like she was weaned on a pickle'--came to my mind.”

— Pepper Phillips

“I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or…

— Gillian Flynn

“He still looked like something Eleanor didn’t have words for.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term…

— Raymond Chandler

“Well, perhaps she had a little of his pride. She’d certainly found plenty when he was making her sound like some lofty lady who…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“This way to the widge. Edwin started. Heavens! Up till now, she realized, she had carefully avoided forming in her mind any word for…

— Judith Ivory

“My stepmother was no beauty. She was round and squat with a face not unlike a potato that had been scrubbed.”

— Sally Gardner

“He knew that her eyes were made up of dozens of shades of brown, with that one enchanting circle of green constantly daring him…

— Julia Quinn

“She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If…

— Kristin Hannah

“In the midst of so many brown heads her fairness alone was arresting. It was an autumn evening, misty and cold, and the room…

— Anna Kavan

“Though the pictured face was floridly coloured, you suspected pallor; a mind lightly balanced, and liable to snap from sheer weight of dreams.”

— Carter Dickson

“Given my druthers now, I’d prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding’s wife, “the Duchess,” who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook…

— Gillian Flynn