Quotes About Appearance

On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.

Society was self-interest given a pretty gloss.

Freddie felt strongly that a natural appearance was only permissible, only really effective, it if was artificially produced.

Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman's armor in this world whether Bernard of Clairvaux approved or not.

Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman's armor in this world

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

but she knew also that what the world sees of the life of any human creature is not the real life; that life is lived in secret, a reality that moves behind the facade of appearance, like wind behind a painted curtain; only an occasional ripple of the surface, a smile, a sudden light or shadow passing on a face, surprising by its unexpectedness, gives news of something quite other than what is seen.

There was a happy chirping in the cloakroom as the children put on their walking shoes. Mary, standing at the door, thought they might have been sparrows, so loud was the chirping and so fulfilled with satisfaction. Perhaps the purpose of sparrows, as of children let out of school, was just to remark loudly and with repetition that in spite of any appearance to the contrary everything is quite all right.

We look so very different from the way we sound. It's a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you're forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dislodged from the old shoe of yourself.

I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to Johnny. Impenetrable happiness. For a long time I couldn't enter his life because his happiness, or appearance of happiness - his unending smiles - locked the door. An ingenious strategy, to surround the thorns with a castle.

Isn't that odd?' she continued as they wandered back from the front towards the shops again, 'When you see people in the shops choosing their clothes and shoes and stuff, they take ages - as though each thing they choose will be amazing and perfect. And then, look at them. They mostly look simply terrible - or just ordinary They might just as well have chosen their clothes out of a bran tub.

The first view I got of Suci was her prodigious backside.

It was about three feet wide and stippled

No need for you to think about something pink to wear or something blue or yellow. No use to think about soft colours. You might as well wear one kind as another. Drab. Brown. Faded dark old shrunk-up anything is good enough. Why don't you just give up and be ugly? That's what you are. Ugly. That's all.

God?" said Kate, revolted. "You don't look like any god to me, Christopher Heron! You look like a piece of gilded gingerbread, that's what you look like, one of those cakes they sell at a fair!

She'd worn her most ostentatious clothes because she knew that the best camouflage was a kind of flagrancy: you didn't have to worry how people took you so much if the first thing they noticed was that you were rich.

Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.

I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.

It is good for women to look like little girls now, to have no hair between their legs. The women out in the waiting room, the ones who will not look at me, are here for that too, to be made into smooth, hairless creatures. They will have their skin polished, smoothed, so everyone can pretend they are young again. Everyone wants the young.

La parete era interamente occupata da uno specchio alto e gigantesco. Susan fu costretta a vedere se stessa: una donna dalla faccia pallida e dai capelli grigi, dai calzoni neri cascanti. Al contrario, Helen allo specchio sembrava piccola, compatta, linda e ordinata, con addosso un vestito di maglia aderente e un paio di collant: dove aveva imparato a vestirsi così?

Bob first greeted them at graduation, appeared

him. "Lost a little weight now we don't have our crackers and cheese every night. But I guess I look like hell." He would say that

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.