Quotes About Appearance

I had put on a bright yellow T-shirt in the hope that it would make me look happier than I felt.

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, coloured by what you thought of them.

I had been wrong when I said Liza McCullen wasn't beautiful: when she smiled she was stunning.

I don't think he'll be able to see you over the radio," Frances ventured. "But I still want to look nice for him." Margaret

It doesn't go. And you look like you're trying to hide something behind it." "But I'm . . . well, I'm all cleavage otherwise." "So?" He shrugged. "Look, Clark, if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it mentally as well as physically.

I realized with mild disappointment that charity could mean something quite different here: that it was not enough to give, you had to be seen to be giving.

E adesso in piedi, coraggio. Mettiti un filo di rossetto, un po' di fard su quelle guance smorte e datti una sistemata ai capelli. Hai una faccia da funerale.

Kind eyes under all the mascara.

The door opened slowly, and there he stood, still in the same cornflower blue shirt I remembered from two summers previously, but a newer, shorter haircut, perhaps a vain attempt to combat the ageing effects of extreme grief.

All Chelsea's internet dates were gorgeous. Until she met them.

You could cut your hair. It makes you look like some kind of vagrant.

self-possessed, someone who understood that appearances were, if not everything, at least the foundation of something.

No hay nada mas elocuente que un zapato adecuado. Se puede decir mucho de una persona por sus zapatos.

But the women in this ballroom looked as if they made their appearance a full-time job.

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, coloured by what you thought of them. It

She looked me up and down as she had when we'd first met, as if my own wardrobe had failed some invisible test.

But you can tell so much about someone from what they wear.

I smiled and I think I put on a pretty good impression of someone who was enjoying the day.

stared at her as she floated down the aisle, wondering how it would feel to be tall and long-legged and look like something most of us only saw on airbrushed posters. I

Heck, I remember that I used to dress up to take an airplane flight; today, it looks homeless people fill up the planes.

In many instances, a preoccupation with appearances--unrealistic social expectations, impossible standards--can be the single largest barrier to a satisfying social life.

My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared to me perfectly ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge or infinite mountains over my head.

How great therefore may the resemblance be, as to all outward expressions and appearances, between a hypocrite and a true saint!

who seemed to have grown his afro to new and previously unexplored heights, inspiring Norman Mailer to write that King looked like a man falling down an elevator shaft, "whoosh went the hair up from his head