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Quotes About Appearance

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
~ Epictetus
beauty is the currency of betrayal!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain't that fucking attractive.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
There are some nasty bitches out there. If they don't dab the front end, they probably don't wipe the back end. That's women of all colors and races. Guess what? I'm not one. I smell nice at all times.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
I looked at him, at the debonair man in the suit of all suits . . . . I wasn't in clothes on the level of his, but I wanted the hotel staff to regard me with respect. I grabbed my bag, hoping he wouldn't say anything about me carrying so much, but. I wanted it to look like I was arriving as a guest, not as rented coochie.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Web pages get bogged down in the dispute over whether the reader or author should control the appearance.
~ Eric S. Raymond
They may not realize it, but consistently thinking of the external appearance as both supremely important and also as an object whose uniqueness and differences are not valued or appreciated and must therefore be butchered and uniformized has got to wear the spirit down on some deep level.
~ Amanda Filipacchi
Unfortunately, no one had been able to do much with her hair. It formed a very unfashionable, slightly frizzy halo around her head.
~ Amanda Quick
There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.
~ Amber Benson
They say it looked like a big flower had sprung in the place where I shot myself dead, just like those ribbon pigtails clung onto either side of your head.
~ Amber Tamblyn
To men a man is but a mind. Who caresWhat face he carries or what form he wears?But woman's body is the woman. OStay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go.
~ Ambrose Bierce
C'est l'occident qui est croyant, jusque dans sa laïcité, et c'est l'Occident qui est religieux, jusque dans l'athéisme. Ici, au Levant, on ne se préoccupe pas des croyances, mais des apparences. Nos confessions sont des tribus, notre zèle religieux est une forme de nationalisme...
~ Amin Maalouf
And justice lies in appearance, at least in this world, at least in the eyes of the multitude.
~ Amin Maalouf
He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.
~ Amit Chaudhuri
He] was what people called a man's man. He fixed things and he had a deep laugh. He looked like he could carry you out of a burning building and he looked like the kind of man who would go back in to get your poodle. And even though he made fun of his own looks [...], I liked his face.
~ Amy Bloom
I got by. I lived amputated, which sounds worse than it felt. I learned to do all kinds of large and small tasks, with part of me missing, and I feel pretty sure that the people who watched me in the world thought I was entirely able-bodied.
~ Amy Bloom
And maybe that was why he'd fallen so easily for Bertie, who was skinny and polished, but with indolence instead of work.
~ Amy Jo Cousins
We're doing it because he's trying to look like a respectable member of the family and not the fucking mafia,' Dex snapped. He grimaced at Ethan. 'Sorry, man, but seriously--this is some fuckin' suit.' Ethan looked at himself and his spiffy shiny cuffs and sighed. 'I was going for grown-up,' he confessed. Kane was the one who said it. 'Well, what you got was connected, but that's okay, right? Because, you know, better a hired killer than a porn star.'
~ Amy Lane
Young, he was young and pretty hot, when it came to that. Blond, green-eyed, and out of uniform.
~ Amy Lane
You get better-looking. I like your superpower best." Because Ellery did look good. His hair had been pulled back from his face every day, perfect without fail, and his suits—all olive and navy, Jackson noticed—had been impeccable.
~ Amy Lane
Emmy had turned so red that the woman laughed and said, "Well, I guess it's not blusher!
~ Amy Scheibe
People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
~ Amy Sedaris
Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
~ Amy Sedaris