Quotes About Appearance

She was sturdy, which my mother had taught me was the polite word to describe someone overweight.

When you are young, and beautiful, you can be very cruel.

Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

She looked away from him, drawing hard on her Rothman's; when her mouth puckered into hard little lines around the cigarette, it looked like a cat's anus.

Strike noticed that, in spite of Duffield's air of disorientation and distress, he had made a good job of applying his eyeliner.

Strike registered the pronounced asymmetry of his pale blue eyes, one of which was a good centimeter higher than the other. It gave him an oddly vulnerable look, as though he had been finished in a hurry.

It was difficult for him to decide whether she was sincere, or performing her own character; her beauty got in the way, like a thick cobweb through which it was difficult to see her clearly.

Very good-looking, if you like them coke-thin.

Not for the first time, he consoled himself that his hair looked the same whether brushed or unbrushed.

He looked exactly what he was: a large ex-boxer who smoked too much and ate too much fast food.

Robin felt a wave of liking simply for the way he looked.

a curious-looking man, whose ascetic features of pinched nose and black brows were enclosed by rolls of fat around chin and neck, as though a puritan had been engulfed by the body of a jolly squire.

Strike, meanwhile, had seen just enough of Robin to be shocked by her appearance. He had never seen her face so pale, nor her eyes so puffy and bloodshot. Even as he sat down at his desk, eager to hear what information on Whittaker Shanker had brought to his office, the thought crossed his mind: What's the bastard done to her? And for a fraction of a second, before fixing all his attention on Shanker, Strike imagined punching Matthew and enjoying it.

Looking like a rake with two plastic tangerines tied to it

Impossible men: idle, illiterate,Self-pitying, dirty, sly,For whose appearance even in City ParksExcuses must be made to casual passers-by.Has God's supply of tolerable husbandsFallen, in fact, so lowOr do I always over-value womanAt the expense of man?Do I?It might be so.

Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.

The only difference between us and the animals is our ability to accessorize!

I do not know whether as a child I was really ugly, but I remember well that I was often told that I was and that I must therefore strive to show inward virtues and intelligence. Up to the age of fourteen or fifteen, I was firmly convinced of my ugliness and was therefore more concerned with acquiring inward accomplishments and was less mindful of my outward appearance.

The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow.

This means that just when we are comfortable, then we find there is Change. But within us, our ego likes security. Security means constancy in existence, in appearance. Constancy is having. But constancy is not in the world of action. Constancy in the world of action is an illusion. The beingness which we seek cannot be found in appearance. This is because the beingness is in the becoming. The becoming is the essence for it is the pathway toward God.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

And if they shamelessly stand their ground, capering and changing their form or appearance, fear them not, nor shrink, nor heed them as though they were good spirits. For the presence either of the good or evil, by the help of God can easily be distinguished.

Beauty: You called me beautiful last night. Beast: You do not believe me then? Beauty: Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise. Beast: You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.