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Quotes About Appearance

I wear false eyelashes at work so I get used to that fuller look all the time, so when I get home, I'm like 'ugh, it's not the same.'
~ Frankie Bridge
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.
~ Judith Light
I at least have to cut my hair. I can't do the whole man bun, funky long hair thing anymore.
~ Michael Chiesa
For Mrs. Satterthwaite interested herself - it was the only interest she had - in handsome, thin, and horribly disreputable young men.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Now a man listening to gossip about another man whom he knows very well will go pretty far in the way of believing what a beautiful woman will tell him about that other man. Beauty and truth have a way of appearing to be akin; and it is true that no man knows what another man is doing when he is out of sight.
~ Ford Madox Ford
I thought suddenly that she wasn't real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates.
~ Ford Madox Ford
It is very extraordinary to see the perfect flush of health on her cheeks, to see the lustre of her coiled black hair, the poise of the head upon the neck, the grace of the white hands - and to think that it all means nothing - that it is a picture without a meaning. Yes, it is queer.
~ Ford Madox Ford
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
She IS too fat, said Lavinia. And Sara is too thin.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary—she actually looked almost pretty for a moment.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
so red, indeed, that she almost looked as if tears were coming into her poor, dull, childish eyes;
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
It was curious how much nicer a person looked when they smiled
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
He is plain-looking, miss, ain't he?" said Becky. "He looks like a very ugly baby," laughed Sara. "I beg your pardon, monkey; but I'm glad you are not a baby. Your mother couldn't be proud of you, and no one would dare to say you looked like any of your relations.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.
~ Frances Mayes
He was so handsome,but he didn't look well.He reminded her of a cigarette.
~ Francesca Lia Block
The most beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex.
~ Francesca Lia Block
So the spell was broken and she ran home through a tangle of words where the letters jumbled and made no sense and meant nothing, and the words were ugly and she was not to be heard or seen, she was blemished and too fat, too thin, not smart, too smart, not beautiful, not a woman not not not. All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Ella is much younger. Maybe thirty. I don't know. And you certainly can't tell from the way she dresses. Middle of winter she finds a way to show her belly button. And she's got four hundred of these little elastic bands that can only pass for a skirt if you never move your legs. Top that with this unbelievable iridescent red hair and you've got one hot seventeen-year-old. At least that's what she thinks.
~ Francine Pascal
Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.
~ Francine Pascal
There was only one blonde in the room, and she didn't even have a tan.
~ Francine Pascal
Physically she was like a swan among more humble fowl – tall, willowy, and exceptionally pretty with fair skin and golden hair, whereas the Chardins were plain and dark, stocky and short.
~ Francine Pascal
when she first realized that Robin had a pretty face. Now, as the weight fell away, that face was becoming more than just pretty.
~ Francine Pascal
The girls wore clothes that hadn't been fashionable for at least a year. There was only one blonde in the room, and she didn't even have a tan.
~ Francine Pascal