Quotes About Appearance

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

Smile pretty and watch your back

Behind every smile there's teeth.

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

I hate my smile. I always have, even in my school pictures when I was a little kid.

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out.

There is no faith in the smile of the rose

You are never fully dressed until you put on a smile!

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

The only place men want depth in their women is in their décolletage

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

For instance, being 'confident', 'carefree' and 'unconcerned about one's appearance' are now central aspects of femininity in their own right—even as they sit alongside injunctions to meet standards of beauty that 'only a mannequin could achieve' (Kilbourne, 1999 cited in Gill, 2008, p. 440).

Ageism is the intimate colonisation of embodied time by the vampiric forces of patriarchal capitalism that instils an ideological timebomb in the female mind that ticks with the incessant and cruel warning that the passing of time is something for which women must be punished. Women, far more than men, are judged by how old they are and how old they look. The threatening ticking of male domination reduces women's social and economic worth to how "fresh" we appear.

It's hard to sit on the floor and change your socks without looking as though you're sitting on the floor changing your socks

What I used to fear was growing old—not the aches and pains part or the what-have-I-done-with-my-life part or the threat of illness, none of that. I just couldn't imagine what my life would be like without the option of looking good.