Quotes About Appearance

In the embellished woman, Nature was present but captive.

Cependant c'est là le premier mensonge, la première trahison de la femme: c'est celle de la vie même qui, fût-elle revêtue des formes les plus attrayantes, est toujours habitée par les ferments de la vieillesse et de la mort.

Love needs reality. What is more terrible than the discovery that through a bodily appearance we have been loving an imaginary being. It is much more terrible than death, from death does not prevent the Beloved from having lived. That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination.

Les choses sensibles sont réelles en tant que choses sensibles, mais irréelles en tant que biens. L'apparence a la plénitude de la réalité, mais en tant qu'apparence. En tant qu'autre chose qu'apparence, elle est erreur. (...) Le temps, à proprement parler, n'existe pas (sinon le présent comme limite), et pourtant c'est à cela que nous sommes soumis. Telle est notre condition. Nous sommes soumis à ce qui n'existe pas.

Or should he damn Fran instead? Fran to whom life was a fashion- show.

He reflected that Fran had an unsurpassed show-window display but not much on the shelves inside.

Kat had her arms folded and her hair was tied in what girls call a topknot. Her skinny, bony face jutted out. With her tilted chin and dark eyebrows she seemed sharper, somehow, as if she was more in focus than other people round her, or more real. You couldn't help noticing her, whether you were looking for her or not. Maybe that's what being pretty meant, I thought.

You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut

She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the ming of the most resolute of men.

When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I saw the delicate, pink-mottled claw meat poking seductively through its blanket of mayonnaise and the bland yellow pear cup with its rim of alligator-green cradling the whole mess. Poison.

On the way, a great many demanded it, read it, and passed on. Those having the air and appearance of gentlemen, whose dress indicated the possession of wealth, frequently took no notice of me whatever; but a shabby fellow, an unmistakable loafer, never failed to hail me, and to scrutinize and examine me in the most thorough manner. Catching runaways is sometimes a money-making business.

Everyone knows the first rule of business is Look good during confrontations. Or if it isn't, it should be.

Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too.

If you look good, you feel good

Is you look good, you feel good!

Io non mi sono mai sentita vecchia. Nessuno si sente vecchio. [...] Io mi sono sempre sentita così: una ragazza di vent'anni, per tutta la vita. L'aspetto esteriore è solo... un involucro»

And I can't sigh or roll my eyes or exclaim, "I'm so stressed!" because they, I now realize, are things you do when you're not really worried. When you're really worried, you go silent and pick at your fingernails and forget to put your lipstick on.

Io non mi sono mai sentita vecchia. Nessuno si sente vecchio. [...] Io mi sono sempre sentita così: una ragazza di vent'anni, per tutta la vita. L'aspetto esteriore è solo... un involucro.

He flashes me a brief smile and I notice that his teeth are very white and even. Well.

I guess that's what happens when you have no Botox, makeup, or fake tan. You have expressions instead.

so I believed—what a handsome prince you raised— under the skin, what sickness to the core.

In real life I'm a tall, blond Christian.

Finding the physical aspect is important to me because that is often how we read people in everyday life.