Quotes About Appearance

Great to see you big boy, how's the noise? You're looking great, really very, very fat and unwell. Amazing.

If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.

Appearances are deceptive.

The lamb… began to follow the Wolf in the Sheep's clothing.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good.

If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

There's no doubt about what the man's profession has been. He's a retired hairdresser. Look at that moustache of his.

It's awfully easy to appear silly, Mr. Clement. It's one of the easiest things in the world.

Some of the greatest criminals I have known had the faces of angels.

Every one made such a fuss over things nowadays! They wanted injections before they had teeth pulled -they took drugs if they couldn't sleep-they wanted easy chairs and cushions and the girls allowed their figures to slop about anyhow and lay about half naked on the beaches in summer.

A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love, he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you, he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.

At a small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction- it fascinated rather than repelled. She sat very upright. Round her neck was a collar of very large pearls which, improbable though it seemed, were real. Her hands were covered with rings. Her sable coat was pushed back on her shoulders. A very small and expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.

I must say that ever since I have been unable to stop myself applying this criterion to any male stranger. Good-looking, perhaps–but are his legs common?

But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine.

One must always proceed with method. I made an error of judgment asking you that question. Toeach man his own knowledge. You could tell me the details of the patient's physical appearance- nothing there would escape you. If I wanted information about the papers on the desk, Mr. Raymond would have noticed anything there was to see. To find out about the fire, I must ask the man whose business is to observe such things. - Detective Hercule Poirot to Doctor Sheppard