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Quotes About Appearance

No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
Having a manicure pulls a look together. Hands are the first thing people see after your face.
~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld
Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow, we're identical!" "I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking," said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.
~ J. K. Rowling
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.
~ Paul Ricoeur
I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one day and said: 'Dad, being bald and wearing shorts doesn't look good together'.
~ Alfredo Di Stefano
You can do what you want, at home. But when you go out, keep it together.
~ Stefano Pilati
Shocking it is . . . It's what comes of being too handsome.
~ Mary Balogh
Since when had shabby men started to look impossibly attractive when immaculately tailored ones merely looked ... well, immaculately tailored? Though it was not shabby men exactly, was it, but a certain shabby man . It was really very puzzling.
~ Mary Balogh
How easy it is to dismiss the outer packaging without an inkling that one is thereby missing the precious beauty within." His
~ Mary Balogh
It is a kind of vanity to wear patched clothes, the baron added sagely. He likes other people to notice how godly he is.
~ Mary Balogh
He was a man who seemed careless of his appearance, very different from the gentlemen with whom she had consorted until a few months ago. She would not have afforded him a second glance if she had passed him on the street—or even a first glance for that matter. But during the few minutes she had been forced into his company, she had been aware of a sort of restless energy and raw masculinity about him, and she had been slightly shocked at herself for noticing. It was not like her at all.
~ Mary Balogh
beautiful. "But if we get out of here and you're . . . uh . . . old and—" ugly—"sixty years old or something . . .
~ Mary Connealy
Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
Mother tries to catch Warren's eyes in the rearview, saying, Warren, you've gotta come to Texas and see the pictures, of your wife. Do you think I look bad? You got in the back so quick I couldn't see you, he says. His eyes are fixed on the lights of Boston. Master of diplomacy, I say.
~ Mary Karr
shoulder-length blond hair and piercing blue eyes. She introduced her partner
~ Mary Kay Andrews
All the world is taken in through the eye, to reach the soul, where it becomes more, representative of a realm deeper than appearances: a realm ideal and sublime, the deep stillness that is, whose whole proclamation is the silence and the lack of material instance in which, patiently and radiantly, the universe exists.
~ Mary Oliver
looked terrible! Her face was covered with bright yellow spots!
~ Mary Pope Osborne
When Jack looked up, he saw the woman had pulled off her wig. It was a boy dressed up as a woman! "See, even she's a boy," said Annie. "That's weird.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
saw a large fire burning on a hearth. In its rosy glow, three strange creatures were weaving at a big loom. Jack caught his breath. Their appearance was shocking.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
This is why you don't just stick bodies in the refrigerator before an open-casket funeral. Mack is telling me about a ninety-seven-year-old woman who looked sixty after her embalming. "We had to paint in wrinkles, or the family wouldn't recognize her.
~ Mary Roach
You do not dress to please yourself; you dress to please others.
~ Mary Roach
She looks at once like someone who could have worked as a runway model and someone who would be mildly put off to hear that.
~ Mary Roach
No man got an erection from looking at "brown string sandals.
~ Mary Roach
Mortuary embalming is designed to keep a cadaver looking fresh and uncadaverous for the funeral service, but not much longer. (Anatomy departments amp up the process by using greater amounts and higher concentrations of formalin; these corpses may remain intact for years, though they take on a kind of pickled horror-movie appearance.)
~ Mary Roach