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Quotes About Appearance

Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident?
~ Josh Lanyon
He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked...fine. Fine, as in get the Chiffons over here to sing a chorus.
~ Josh Lanyon
Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy
~ Josh Lanyon
Young men see pretty, and they start hanging all the things they hope you'll be onto you till you're so weighed down you can't move.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
She was exactly like her house, expensive and elegant, but not at all comfortable.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
But I did like looking at her. It was harder now, knowing all the ways she sucked, but she was still gorgeous.
~ Joshua Ferris
And he was moved by the contrast with his own condition. A free man, relatively prosperous, just ending five weeks in luxury's lap, and he was quite unhappy. The slaves, treated abominably, at least showed cheer—the appearance of happiness.
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk
You," she said, "are the ugliest man I ever saw." Sadly, the man answered, "Perhaps so, but I can't help that." "No," the woman allowed, "but you might stay at home.
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk
It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.
~ Joss Stone
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She had yet to experience the effects of anybody's sex appeal, though she greatly admired Larry Bird—a fact that could not possibly have had anything to do with his looks.
~ Joyce Maynard
Los humanos asumían como ciertas las falsedades más peregrinas simplemente porque venían envueltas en un bonito paquete.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Por el modo de vestirse, cada uno hace de su cuerpo una ficción.
~ Juan José Saer
She is not only beautiful on the outside, but inwards as well. When she is old and not so lovely, she will be well loved. But you! Your beauty is on the outside alone. If it were taken away from you, only a querulous, evil-minded, vicious woman would remain.
~ Jude Deveraux
And now over there is a gentleman who should not wear tight pantaloons. You will see when he turns around. There. That is why.
~ Jude Morgan
He wasn't the best looking man she'd ever met. It was just
~ Judith Arnold
He will be eighteen in January, but he looks younger than that, and vulnerable; yet older at the same time. Tired. His face is drawn. He has an urge to shield him, but how? There is no way. No way at all.
~ Judith Guest
It is strange, is it not, how an accident of a millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important. Think about it Elliot, She has two eyes, a nose, a mouth, just like everyone else. It,s all in tiny degrees of placement, such small area of magic to make such a big difference. For me, Elliot, I must tell you it is a hard thing to understand- why these things, these millimeters, are so crucial to you, you of all men.
~ Judith Krantz
I didn't really notice that he had a funny nose. And he certainly looked better all dressed up in fancy clothes. He's not nearly as attractive as he seemed the other night. So I think I'll just pretend that this glass slipper feels too tight.
~ Judith Viorst
I'd hate to be a balding man named Harry Harrison.
~ Judy Baer
Can I meet him?" she asked. "Yeah, sure. Why not?" As I said it, I wondered how I was going to make Eric appear. It would be a lot easier to make myself disappear !
~ Judy Baer
Nach Elenas Meinung hatte eine Frau in der ersten Lebenshälfte das Schminken nicht nötig, während es in der zweiten nicht mehr half.
~ Juli Zeh
Mühelos schlüpfte Gerhard in den rechten Schuh. Danach war es unmöglich, den Blick davon abzuwenden. Der Schuh adelte den Stoff der etwas zu dünnen und etwas zu blauen Hose, er adelte die ganze Person. Gerhard spazierte vor dem Spiegel auf und ab, den linken Fuß in der ausgetretenen Sandale, den rechten im eleganten Derby-Schuh, und sah die Beine von zwei völlig verschiedenen Menschen, die grausamerweise aus ein und demselben Körper hingen.
~ Juli Zeh
All in all, this shows that not every bad person dresses immodestly, and not every well-dressed person is holy, but it merely clarifies the pagan characteristics of public nudity and the Christian roots of reverencing the human body.
~ Julia Black