Quotes about appearance

"Appearances are deceptive."

Aesop on appearance
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"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

Aesop on appearance
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"Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it."

Arbus, Diane on appearance   

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

Ashe, Arthur on appearance
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"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance"

Beecher, Henry Ward on appearance
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"The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons."

Bhagavad Gita on appearance
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"Think not I am what I appear."

Byron, Lord on appearance
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"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."

Chandler, Raymond on appearance   

"Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on appearance
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"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."

Cohen, Herb on appearance
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"Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford."

Crawford, Cindy on appearance   

"My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time."

Curtis, Jamie Lee on appearance   

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

Cushing, Richard C. on appearance
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"The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on appearance   

"You are only what you are when no one is looking."

Edwards, Robert C. on appearance
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"Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."

Eliot, George on appearance
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"'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on appearance   

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"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."

Euripides on appearance   

"I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went Oooh."

Fishburne, Laurence on appearance   

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

Fuller, Thomas on appearance
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"Things are seldom what they seem."

Gilbert, W. S. on appearance   

"If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich."

Goldsmith, Oliver on appearance   

"Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?"

Greer, Germaine on appearance   

"First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily."

Hazlitt, William on appearance   

"I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist."

Hemingway, Ernest on appearance   

"A hair in the head is worth two in the brush."

Herford, Oliver on appearance   

"There's one thing about baldness, it's neat."

Herold, Don on appearance   

"Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely."

Hubbard, Kin on appearance
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"God loveth the clean."

Koran, The on appearance   

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"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."

La Fontaine, Jean De on appearance
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"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on appearance   

"To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on appearance   

"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."

Lamb, Charles on appearance   

"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive -- you are leaking."

Lebowitz, Fran on appearance   

"You're only has good as your last haircut."

Lee, Susan on appearance   

"The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them."

Lincoln, Abraham on appearance   

"Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40."

Lincoln, Abraham on appearance   

"You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wear it when you're gone"

Mercy, Sisters Of on appearance   

"What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."

Morissette, Alanis on appearance   

"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fa?ade of his appearance."

Murdoch, Iris on appearance