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Quotes About Appearance

But now living women wanted to be doll-like, to cross the frontier and look like toys. Now the doll was the original, the woman the representation. These living dolls, these stringless marionettes, were not just dolled up on the outside. Behind their high-style exteriors, beneath that perfectly lucent skin, they were so stuffed full of behavioral chips, so thoroughly programmed for action, so perfectly groomed and wardrobed, that there was no room left in them for messy humanity.
~ Salman Rushdie
By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue a continuous disclaimer: I see you are looking at my face. Please be aware that I don't look this good first thing in the morning.
~ Sam Harris
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.
~ Muhammad Ali
I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
~ Muhammad Ali
I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.
~ Mitt Romney
The person who proclaimed me Best Dressed Man never saw me in my sport outfit.
~ Robert Pattinson
You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail.
~ Dana Gould
My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you.' I think this is true.
~ Nathan Fillion
There are also half bricks. As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Dating' stressful. I'd have to dress up.
~ Danika Stone, All the Feels
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
~ Richard Gere
A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.
~ Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good
~ Victoria Principal
People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.
~ Kim Kardashian
This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at one the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Andrea was not very handsome, the hideous scoundrel
~ Alexandre Dumas
Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good gamester, and to pay in cash.
~ Alexandre Dumas
It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir, replied Porthos... and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face.
~ Alexandre Dumas
When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing;
~ Alexandre Dumas
being able to conceal from himself the ridiculous appearance that such a steed gave him, good horseman as he was. He had sighed deeply, therefore, when accepting
~ Alexandre Dumas
Je n'aime pas les bruns qui chantent blond. –
~ Alexandre Dumas
This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at once the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.
~ Alexandre Dumas