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Quotes About Appearance

Some seek only the appearance of justice and virtues. Some seek real justice and virtues. Some others are too lazy to search at all.
~ Klaudio Marashi
The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.--Elwin Stark
~ John Connolly, The Unquiet
In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white, " until later their true colors come out.
~ Anthony Liccione
Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.
~ Torey L. Hayden, Murphy's Boy
There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man was ugly.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.
~ Zanjabil
Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.
~ German proverb
Underneath, he was a good cat. Loyal and loving. But no one ever bothered to look past his rough exterior, because in reality, looks meant more than everyone wanted to admit.
~ Cambria Hebert, #Nerd
The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.
~ L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
Some people say, 'Do not judge the book by its cover!' Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.
~ Toba Beta
Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.
~ Michael Buckley
She was a large, boneless woman who draped herself like an old blanket over the chairs of the apartment, staring for hours with her gray eyes at ghosts, figments, recollections, and dust caught in oblique sunbeams, her arms streaked and pocked like relief maps of vast planets, her massive calves stuffed like forcemeat into lung-colored support hose. She was quixotically vain about her appearance and spent an hour each morning making up her face.
~ Michael Chabon
The other fellow was more of a fireplug, broad in the chest and shoulders, with a wide pugnacious face and the hint of a shadow even on his freshly shaved jaw. He always looked as if he had not dressed for work that morning so much as gotten into some kind of altercation with his suit, shirt, and tie.
~ Michael Chabon
An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence.
~ Michael Chabon
Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big black eyeglasses!
~ Michael Chabon
There were elegantly made up women sitting on bus benches who were not really women and not really waiting for buses.
~ Michael Connelly
She had on a large blond wig, bright pink lipstick and enough makeup on her cheeks to frost a cupcake or
~ Michael Connelly
achaparrado; llevaba el pelo engominado
~ Michael Connelly
She was tall and lithesome with brown wavy hair about to the shoulder with blond highlights.
~ Michael Connelly
night before. His appreciation for the game had dropped markedly in recent years. He used the newspaper section mostly as a blind so that he could hold it up and appear to be reading while he was actually looking at Rachel. Other than the longer hair, she had changed little since he had last been with her. Still vibrantly attractive with an intangible sense of damage about her. It was in the eyes. They weren't the hardened
~ Michael Connelly
Nothing came up on the pubic comb, because you don't have a lot down there to comb. Bottom
~ Michael Connelly
I do know that jurors in general don't care for ponytails—on either the defendants or the lawyers who represent them.
~ Michael Connelly
She looked hard-shell and maybe a little weary for so early in the day, the way lady cops and hookers
~ Michael Connelly
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense.
~ Michael Crichton