Appearance Quotes

Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.

The soul of this man is his clothes.

I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her "before" picture.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

My mind works . . . two boobs never get me a job.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.

Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.

Appear as you may wish to be

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

I went to a freak show and they let me in for nothing.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home.

I went to see my doctor... Doctor Vidi-boom-ba. Yeah...I told him once, "Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror I feel like throwing up. What's wrong with me?" He said, "I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect."

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long.

To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

He is white-livered and red-faced.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

Dude, my hair is like an architectural structure. It’s like… a building.

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.

I may look fake but I'm real where it counts.