Appearance Quotes

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?

He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.

The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

She was so fat that her bikini is made out of two bed sheets (king-size).

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

Names are not always what they seem.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

And stop pointing that beard at me, it might go off!

To pull off any look, wear it with confidence.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

I'm pretty as a girl.

I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?'

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

I only appear to be dead.

I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in.

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking. If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth, he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.