Quotes About Appearance

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

The surface didn't always tell the full story. A carefully constructed façade could hide a myriad of secrets.

Just because a frog says he's a prince doesn't mean you should kiss him. For all you know he's one of the arrogant, worthless princes who might better serve society as a pair of buttered legs on someone's plate.

The fire had scorched my leg as hairless as a high-priced whore's but there were no burns,

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.

Oh, las máscaras. Uno tiende siempre a pensar en el rostro que esconden, pero en realidad lo que cuenta es la máscara, que sea ésa y no otra. Dime qué máscara usas y te diré qué cara tienes.

ya ves, resulta todavía peor, te aparecés como el reverso de mi esperanza, cínicamente me golpeás la ventana y te quedás ahí esperando

Todo es superficial, nena, todo es epi-dér-mico.

Jesus, Oscar, Rudolfo said nervously. You look like they put a shirt on a turd

Ese muchacho está bueno!

Mami looked vaguely out of the snout of her parka

It's disheartening, me and Magda together. We don't look like a couple. When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage. When I smile folks check their wallets.

We look no deeper into things because we do not desire this; neither are we meant to. That is the design of the world, to trick us into believing it is one thing, when it's entirely another.

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

those before-and-after shots of women undergoing the knife and accepting poison to change themselves — the lines on their faces repaved like old roads, their bulbous noses whittled into aristocratic ridges.

I had always felt a foreigner in this made-up Land of Beautiful, and it was a relief to see Extreme Beauty for what it really was: fake, make-believe, insubstantial.

Which one looked more real? Which side more beautiful?

Jacob narrowed his eyes at me, seeing me clearly without my two-faced mask, both sides made up — one with cosmetics, the other with lies.

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself. IRENAEUS OF LYONS

Seldom do people discern Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.