Quotes About Appearance

In our society, the pursuit of thinness (whether for health or physique)—has become the battle cry of seemingly every American.

More and more, as we study and collate all the available evidence, this fact--this law--is borne in on us: that the general movement of human consciousness, when it obeys its innate tendency to transcendence, is always the same. There is only one road from Appearance to Reality. "Men pass on, but the States are permanent for ever.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

He had not been physically fit for some time before his death, but we could accept that for, as I said to a senior officer who queried the point, 'He does not have to look like an officer -- only like a staff officer.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can usually see better than he can think! (unknown)

When I was all doodied up maybe a bit better than interesting. But never lovely, which implied more natural grace than I'd ever had and bone structure that was less strong.

on the outside, and all of

Martha had never trusted skinny cooks.

It has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

Women have always tried to make themselves attractive to men, and you're not going to change a thing like that in a hurry. Look around you. All the women nicely groomed and attractive and good-looking, and the men no better than fat slugs, for the most part, or skinny runts. Unshaved and smelly as often as not. They get away with everything, men. They can do every disgusting thing they like and no one ever says a thing.

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

Realmente ella era una persona muy equilibrada. (Aunque a veces, bajo las más grandes apariencias de equilibrio encontráramos las locuras más sorprendentes o los misterios más inescrutables.)

We magnify the wealthy man, though his parts be never so poor. The poor man we despise, be he never so well qualified. Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool?s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

Nothing is as it seems.

El hábito no hace al monje y el filósofo no es un título, es una forma necia de ser.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals.

You don't want to be poor and look poor, too,' they would say; and 'We've got our pride. Yes, we've got our pride.

John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic,' which tells us all we need to know about her mental abilities. This is why she can't figure out why he picked her. He could have had a multitude of sweet young things but he chose a 42-year-old who is one bleach job away from turning into one big split end, because his tumescent ego demands that he be the pretty one.

She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

However, the one who knows spiritual law, is undisturbed by appearance, and rejoices while he is "yet in captivity.

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

On dit souvent qu'il faut sauver les apparences. Moi je dis qu'il faut les assassiner car c'est le seul moyen d'être sauvé.

Comment ai-je pu laisser les apparences dicter ma vie à ce point-là? On dit souvent qu'« il faut sauver les apparencez ». Moi je dis qu'il faut les assassiner car c'est le sen moyen d'être sauvé. »