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Quotes About Appearance

It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them
~ George Eliot
Away from her sister, Celia talked quite easily, and Sir James said to himself that the second Miss Brooke was certainly very agreeable as well as pretty, though not, as some people pretended, more clever and sensible than the elder sister. He felt that he had chosen the one who was in all respects the superior; and a man naturally likes to look forward to having the best. He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it.
~ George Eliot
Mr. Johnson's character was not much more exceptional than his double chin.
~ George Eliot
If I don't like a man's looks, depend upon it I shall never like HIM. I don't want to know people that look ugly and disagreeable, any more than I want to taste dishes that look disagreeable.
~ George Eliot
have never seen that her religion made any difference in her dress.
~ George Eliot
No one thinks of your appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality
~ George Eliot
our lives would look much uglier and more bungling than the pictures, if they could be put on the wall.
~ George Eliot
Mrs. Glegg had on her fuzziest front, and garments which appeared to have had a recent resurrection from rather a creasy form of burial; a costume selected with the high moral purpose of instilling perfect humility into Bessy and her children.
~ George Eliot
and the other a man of atrabiliar aspect, with lank black hair, and a redundance of limp cravat — in fact, the sort of thing you might expect in men who distributed the publications of the Religious Tract Society, and introduced Dissenting hymns into the Church.
~ George Eliot
Don't judge a book by it's cover
~ George Eliot
But it is really impossible to decide this question by a glance at his person; the lines and lights of the human countenance are like other symbols,–not always easy to read without a key. On an a priori view of Wakem's aquiline nose, which offended Mr. Tulliver, there was not more rascality than in the shape of his stiff shirt-collar, though this too along with his nose, might have become fraught with damnatory meaning when once the rascality was ascertained.
~ George Eliot
Mrs. Stelling was not a loving, tender-hearted woman; she was a woman whose skirt sat well, who adjusted her waist and patted her curls with a preoccupied air when she inquired after your welfare.
~ George Eliot
The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
~ Annie Lennox
I've been going bald since I was about 17. I'm still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder - should I get a wig?
~ Ben Miller
Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
~ Carolina Herrera
Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.
~ Celia Imrie
Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.
~ Kelly Lynch
If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.
~ Edward N. Ney
I worked with him on 'Agneepath,' where we acted together. I played his uncle. Everyone, including Amitabh himself, wondered how I would play his uncle since I was younger than him. I knew what I had to do. I shaved my head, gave myself a receding hairline and some bald patches. He was shocked to see me when he saw me for the first time.
~ Tinnu Anand
With Marouane's hair, I actually wondered if it might take a bit of the pace off the ball when he went up for a header. But I soon realised it was part of his personality. Part of who he is.
~ David Moyes
I don't want to be wondering about how skinny I am, wondering what I'm going to eat because I don't want to gain and I want to look hot and young, always and forever.
~ Heidi Klum
I am wondering when - if - I have to cut my hair. I think it looks terrible if you have really long hair and it's gone gray. So I am experimenting with wearing it up. Up, with pearls. I think that's quite a good look.
~ Jerry Hall
I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
~ Kate McKinnon