Quotes about appearance

Christopher Lasch -

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Daniel Webster -

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging men buy fast cars.

Robert Littell - The Amateur

Cole was meticulous to a fault office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.

Chelsea Handler - My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

Tiffany Baker - The Gilly Salt Sisters

She looked for any sign of the boy who'd taught her to whistle a hornpipe, who could palm an ace of hearts and make it reappear from her sleeve, but failed to find even a glimmer of him. Instead she saw Ida taking on a second life in the features of her only son, and for a quick heartbeat Jo was almost grateful for the scar tissue dimpled across her cheek, forehead, and chin. No one would ever be able to invade her face, she realized. She would always simply be herself, whether she liked it or n

Dorothy L. Sayers - Strong Poison

(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

Natasha Negovanlis -

How you identify or what you prefer in the bedroom does not define your goals, dreams or interests, and has no baring on who you are as a human being, You don’t need to dress or behave a certain way because of your sexual orientation if you don’t want to. Trust that there are groups and resources out there that will support you no matter what. I know that I certainly appreciate all of my fans equally!

Anonymous - Njal's Saga

She was endowed with great beauty for all those attributes that were outside her control, but it was said that in all characteristics for which she herself was responsible, she was utterly wicked

Igor Stravinsky -

He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

Mihail Sebastian - For Two Thousand Years

The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.

Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South

Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.

Kamand Kojouri -

The way you dress is how you greet the sun and other stars.

Simone Elkeles - Perfect Chemistry

Hey, Shell-bell," I say, leaning over her and wiping her face with a napkin. "It's the first day of school. Wish me luck."Shelley holds jerky arms out and gives me a lopsided smile. I love that smile."You want to give me a hug?" I ask her, knowing she does. The doctors always tell us the more interaction Shelley gets, the better off she'll be.Shelley nods. I fold myself in her arms, careful to keep her hands away from my hair. When I straighten, my mom gasps. It sounds to me like a referee's whi

Connie Willis - Bellwether

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

Carrie Jones - Need

We all line up except for this guy in a wheelchair, Devyn. He smiles at me when I line up, introduces himself. He has a movie star smile, just white teeth and charisma, big eyes, dark skin. He’d be perfect looking if he didn’t have such a large nose, but the truth is it looks good on him, natural and powerful. He winks at Issie, who blushes.“You can do it, Is,” he says.She rolls her eyes, twists her lip, and says, “As long as I don’t pass out.”“If you pass out, I’ll put you in my lap and wheel y

Katie McGarry - Crash into You

The entire room turns and stares. There’s no doubt what they see—ripped jeans, a black T-shirt, tattoos and earrings. I don’t care what they see. All I care about is what she sees: a person unwelcomed or the guy she

Sara Sheridan - London Calling

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Torey L. Hayden - Murphy's Boy

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

W. Somerset Maugham -

Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.

Erica O'Rourke - Torn

People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.

Tom Ryan - Tag Along

The thing I've never understood about dancing till now is that it only looks stupid when you're on the outside, watching other people do it. When you're part of the crowd, moving along with everyone else, I can't imagine anything else being quite as much fun.

Donna Lynn Hope -

People care much more for how things look than how things are.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

To lose weight, spend time at the gym. To appear like you’ve lost weight, spend time with people who are bigger than you.

B.J. Neblett -

That's No Ordinary Girl

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I can be an arrogant people If I have to, or when the situation demands me to act so.It is one way for me to make arrogance useful.So if I know not people well, I don't judge them.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

The aroma of the food may not have any connotation with it's taste and the nutrients it contains

Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit: Volume 1

He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man--which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

Catherynne M. Valente - The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home

Flowers are always more serious than they appear.

Juliet Marillier - Daughter of the Forest

His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.

Karen Swallow Prior - Abolitionist

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More

Rahul Rampal -

A single change can sometimes change your entire life

Shon Mehta - Modern Parables

Simplicity of appearance can cause hindrance to success when you are poor. But the same simplicity is admired in a rich and successful person.

Malcolm Gladwell - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

Shenanigans is a financial model on the catwalk.

Nadja Sam -

Vanity dulls the senses.

James Drummond Burns -

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!

Miguel de Cervantes -

All that glisters is not gold.

Lord Chesterfield -

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Henry Fielding -

Handsome is that handsome does.

W. S. Gilbert -

Things are seldom what they seem Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Machiavelli -

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes but few have the gift of penetration.

Bible -

Whited sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within full of dead men's bones.

Jonathan Swift -

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

P.J. O'Rourke -

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

Sarah J. Maas - The Assassin and the Healer

The girl was alluring. Like wildfire, or a summer storm swept off the Gulf of Oro.

Publilius Syrus -

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

Matthew Arnold -

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.

John C. Squire -

But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.

Charles Dickens -

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

Howard Hughes -

His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.

R. G. Daniels -

The most delightful advantage of being bald - one can hear snowflakes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.

Stephen Vincent Benet -

(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.

Abraham Lincoln -

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

Nikolai Gogol -

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

Richard J. Needham -

People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.

Bible -

Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

William Makepeace Thackeray -

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Thomas Fuller -

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Don Herold -

There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.

John Galsworthy -

One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.

Vidal Sassoon -

Hair is another name for sex.

Oscar Wilde -

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.

Henry Ward Beecher -

Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.

Charles Dickens -

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

P. G. Wodehouse -

Why don't you get a haircut you look like a chrysanthemum.

New England saying -

Her face looks as if it had worn out two bodies.

Laurence Sterne -

A man cannot dress without his ideas get clothed at the same time.

Dorothy Parker -

Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?

Isaac Watts -

Let me be dressed fine as I will Flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Noor-us-Sahar -

Self-confidence appear your attitude, so be confident

David Levithan - Will Grayson

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

Lorii Myers - Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace

Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person.A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the golf course and/or workplace and the people there are important.

Rabih Alameddine -

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Antony John - Five Flavors of Dumb

Not at all. It's why people come. They say it's about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it's not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond. Other women go for colors that don't arise innature. Each group thinks it's completely different than the others, but I don't see it that way. I've watched them looking at themselves in the mirror, and they're not interested in conforming or rebelling, they just want to walk out of here feeling lik

Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

I do not know which of us has written this page.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing

I’m not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less.

Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing

I am, for some reason, actually happy with who I am and the muscle, the bones, and the flub that exist beneath these clothes.I don’t need to lose 20 lbs. to be attractive.I don’t need to starve myself of the good things of life to be healthy.And, I don’t need to chase someone else’s ideal of what I should be looking like.

Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing

The skinnier and more toned I got, the fatter I felt.The more in shape I got, the more out of shape I felt like I was.And the more I made myself look good to the masses, the less attractive I felt like I was.

Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing

I’ve been chained to my bathroom scale for two decades now. I’ve used the number on my scale to tell me if I’m valuable or not. I’ve let the number on my scale destroy many beautiful opportunities in my life such as scheduling family photos, having fun at the beach, or giving myself 100% in intimacy. I’ve let the number on the scale tell me if I should be confident in who I am. I’ve let the number on the scale tell me if I am worthy of kind thoughts from others. Ultimately, I’ve always let some

Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing

I enjoy a torture session on the rowing machine and I also enjoy my mom’s homemade peach cobbler. I enjoy flopping like that dead fish with hips that can’t lie in dance class, and I also enjoy ordering pizza with my kid, renting a movie, and downing popcorn while we share some special time together. I enjoy seeing how much I can lift at the gym and I also enjoy stuffing a fresh chewy chocolate chip cookie into my face when I’m having a hard day.

Andrena Sawyer -

The problem with social media is that it's great for your ego, but terrible for your sanity.

Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.

J.E.B. Spredemann - Rosabelle's Story

Yep, there's special eyes that only Jesus can give. When people have special eyes, they can see past a person's face and show other people love.

P.C. Hodgell - God Stalk

A face stared up at her from the mirror beside her hand. Was that really what she looked like? Was that really what she looked like, all sharp lines and huge silver-grey eyes? Certainly, no one would ever call those features beautiful, Jame thought ruefully; but were they really enough like a boy's to have fooled that old man the alley? Well, maybe with that long black hair out of sight under a cap. It was a very young face and a defiant one, she thought with a odd sense of detachment, but frigh

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don't forget your up stairs, if you don't go up there to put things in order, then, consider the former attributes null and void.

Jerome K. Jerome - Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's world hideous. Then wild and wicked thoughts come into my heart. I don't want to be good and respectable. (I never can be sensible, I'm told; so that don't matter.) I want to put on lavender-colored tights, with red velvet breeches and a green doublet slashed with yellow; to have a light-blue silk clo

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Dreams appear as seeds that when planted, must become a forest reserve.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

George Horace Lorimer - Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

Of course, clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal. A dirty shirt may hide a pure heart, but it seldom covers a clean skin. If you look as if you had slept in our clothes, most men will jump to the conclusion that you have, and you will never get to know them well enough to explain that your head is so full of noble thoughts that you haven't time to bother with the dandruff on

Cat Clarke - Undone

To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

K.J. Bishop - The Etched City

Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as one cannot grow except by having one’s spirit greatly stirred; and the spirit cannot be greatly stirred by spiritless things. Much of our very life is dead. For primitive man, this was not so. He made his own possessions, and shaped and decorated them with the aim of making them