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Quotes About Appearance

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
~ Machiavelli
De modo geral, os homens julgam mais com os olhos do que com o tato: todos podem ver, mas poucos são capazes de sentir. Todos veem nossa aparência, poucos sentem o que realmente somos [...]
~ Machiavelli, Niccolò
Calvin said, Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses? I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father. Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes, Calvin said. Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Just a moment, Mrs. Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She nodded triumphantly. Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
2. Men like women without make-up. They don't. They like extremely well and carefully made-up women whose skin has that expensive cultured look which comes from three hours at the dressing table. A woman who is really without make-up would frighten them to death. They regard blotches as eczema, and uneven colouring as a sign of tertiary syphilis.
~ Maeve Binchy
I don't know. Maybe the fellow from my own home town. He's very good looking, Stevie.' Kit said this partly to put the glamorous Frankie in the position of knowing that Stevie was out of bounds, partly to convince herself. In her heart she knew that Stevie was cheap and obvious.
~ Maeve Binchy
Was Louis mean? He had always seemed the very spirit of generosity. When he had hardly sixpence left he would spend the coins he had on a bunch of violets. She couldn't bear to think of Louis as mean. Anything else but that.
~ Maeve Binchy
Do you like Stevie?' 'No, but he's good-looking.' 'And is Philip O'Brien good-looking?' 'No, but he's keen on you.' Clio had the world sorted out.
~ Maeve Binchy
your looks—that
~ Maeve Binchy
It matters that you care enough about yourself and about the people you meet to present yourself well
~ Maeve Binchy
Cops coming and going, keyboards clicking, phones ringing. She looked haggard. Hard. She hadn't always, Vince figured. The worry lines bracketing her eyes, her mouth, the dry skin, the chapped lips, the sense that she really didn't give a damn what she looked like—those things had been strangers to her that first day. The day her kids hadn't come home from school. Now those lines, that hardness, had made themselves at home. It looked as if they planned to stay awhile. This shouldn't have
~ Maggie Shayne
Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture, once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear (p.251).
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The As were judged to be much more alert, poised, attractive, and well dressed. In fact, the scores on those four dimensions are so different as to make you think you are looking at two different species of humans. You aren't, of course. You're simply seeing the difference between those schooled by their families to present their best face to the world, and those denied that experience.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on
~ Malcolm Gladwell
this wasn't about something really obvious, such as skin color or age or height or weight. It was just about hair. Something about the first impression created by my hair derailed every other consideration in the hunt for the rapist.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. Proverbs 13:7
~ Malcolm Gladwell
see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7 Introduction Goliath "Am I a dog that you should come to
~ Malcolm Gladwell
A starving pariah dog with the appearance of having lately been skinned had squeezed itself in after the last man; it looked up at the Consul with beady, gentle eyes. Then, thrusting down its poor wrecked dinghy of a chest, from which raw withered breasts drooped, it began to bow and scrape before him.
~ Malcolm Lowry
You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.
~ Bill Cosby
Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.
~ Marilyn Suttle
A company builds its success and becomes popular with its unique appearance and identity
~ Sunday Adelaja
It depends on you whether you want wrinkles or dimples on your face.
~ Raaz Ojha