Quotes about appearance

"I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore."

O'Donnell, Rosie on appearance   

"Neglect of appearance becomes men."

Ovid on appearance   

"When disposition wins us, the features please."

Ovid on appearance   

"The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror."

Ovid on appearance   

"First appearance deceives many."

Phaedrus on appearance
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"Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."

Phaedrus on appearance
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"All things are becoming to good people."

Proverb on appearance   

"The best mirror is an old friend."

Proverb on appearance
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"Wide will wear, but tight will tear."

Proverb on appearance   

"Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance."

Proverb, English on appearance   

"A dimple on the chin, the devil within."

Proverb, Gaelic on appearance   

"A little man often cast a long shadow."

Proverb, Italian on appearance
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"Chins without beards deserve no honor."

Proverb, Spanish on appearance   

"People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm."

Redford, Robert on appearance   

"We see things as we are, not as they are."

Rosten, Leo on appearance
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"No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart."

Ruskin, John on appearance   

"Appearance rules the world."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on appearance   

"There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy."

Seneca on appearance   

"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."

Sharp, Tom on appearance   

"How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems."

Southey, Robert on appearance
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"I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others."

Southey, Robert on appearance   

"Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong."

Terence on appearance   

"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."

Twain, Mark on appearance   

"Bad weather always looks worse through a window."

Unknown, Source on appearance   

"Regardless of weather, the moon shines the same; it is the drifting clouds that make it seem different on different nights."

Unknown, Source on appearance   

"Trust not to much to appearances."

Virgil on appearance   

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on appearance
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"I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look."

Walken, Christopher on appearance   

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

Webster, Daniel on appearance   

"Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

Wesley, John on appearance   

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

Wilde, Oscar on appearance
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"We find our own skin more fascinating than any abstract painting."

Lipsey, Michael on appearance