Quotes About Appearance

How many there are that spend their lives in the midst of all the pleasing trifles of that vast museum of curiosities which are labeled religious, and think themselves Christians!

It was only after her marriage that she had learned to create the illusion of beauty, which is, perhaps, more difficult to achieve than beauty itself.

Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.

She wore no make-up, and her small, tense face looked chronically embarrassed, as if it got attached by mistake to the wrong person.

You look good scruffy." "Now that I know you think that, I'll never shave again." She laughed again. "Remind me to look you up in two years to see how long your beard is." "All you'll have to do is roll over in our bed to see that.

If they were ugly, Peter, would you care half so much?" asked Nightingale. "There are some hideous things out there that can talk and reason, and I wonder if you would be quite so quick to rush to their defence." "Maybe not," I said. "But that just makes me shallow, it doesn't make me wrong.

even before I got close enough to see the flecks of hazel-gold around the iris I had her pegged as being fayer than the client list of a New Zealand casting agency.

Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he'd stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time.

Ash turned out to be a young man half a head taller than me, broad of shoulder, clear of eye, noble of brow and empty of thought.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

Never trust a skinny ice cream man.

You think I look like a teletubby?

You... you don't look like a Jew,' she heard him mumble. 'What does a Jew look like, you fatuous bastard'? - 'Do you think I should have a nose like a boat hook, you stupid old prick!

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Still to be neat, still to be drest,As you were going to a feast.

As Oscar Wilde remarked: "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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One colleague described him thus: "With fierce black eyes and a hawk-like nose, thick well-oiled hair slicked back from a low forehead, he looked like a casting director's ideal choice for a desert sheikh or a slinky tango lizard.

Britain's counterespionage officers saw signs of treachery in everything Ivor Montagu did: they saw it in his friends, his appearance, his opinions, and his behavior. But above all, they saw it in his passionate, and dubious, love of table tennis.

these people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance...

He didn't look depressed. He had a careful three-day growth of beard. His beard was not depressed either. But you never can tell.

Speed in music is like a sweater on a dog: mostly for show.

Some worried about appearing to overreact to what so far had been relatively modest market turmoil.

I tried to appear, and in fact be, calm and deliberate, though my insides often churned.