Quotes About Appearance

we can be made to look very cold-blooded, to you.

TAL HAD TO laugh. Hardly presentable! Wasn't it strange, the way humans looked at themselves with eyes of flesh and not of the Spirit? Certainly that dear woman had been through mire and filth of every degree; she was scarred, exhausted, ragged, and dirty. But to the angels, she appeared as God Himself saw her, just as any other redeemed saint of the living God: pure, shining, clean, dressed in garments as white as snow.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Mirrors and soap would teach self-discipline. Polished shoes, clean shirts and a shaved face signalled an inner purity that could be monitored by others as well as by oneself.

Some books are judged by their covers, it seems, and in my uniform I was an immediate best seller.

Virtue is not a bad garment, but it requires an imposing figure.

Joe Hardy to Frank Hardy: "Age before beauty

Let's hope she's like the others, who look only at the surface. Let's hope she'd never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

A girl can have the face of an angel but have a horrid sort of heart.

Fandom has a nasty tendency to absorb the surface appearances of a thing without ever bothering to internalize its underlying message. Huh. I guess it is just like a religion

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.

A crow is no whiter for being washed.

La belleza y la fealdad son un espejismo, porque los demás terminan viendo nuestro interior.

Oh, those Greeks! They knew how to live. What is required for that is to stop courageously at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore appearance, to believe in forms, tones, words, in the whole Olympus of appearance. Those Greeks were superficial—out of profundity.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

That hat looks ridiculous." "Fortunately, I can change hats," Wayne said, "while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

You look just fine." "Ah, 'just fine.' Exactly what a woman loves to hear." "I'm sorry," he said. "I meant to say that you look like a barbarian who just finished killing her seventeenth rabid tiger to make a necklace out of their incisors.

I'm Teoish," Sarene said, successfully spearing something that looked like a marinated piece of shrimp. "We're all this tall." "Father's Teoish too, Kaise," Daorn said. "And you know how tall he is." "But father's fat," Kaise pointed out. "Why aren't you fat too, Sarene?

You think a 'lord' in front of your name is going to make that face any less ugly?

he was six and a half feet tall and had a jaw so straight it made other men question if they were.

How easy it was to ignore a blackened heart if you dressed it in a pressed uniform and a reputation for honesty.

And no, for those searching, Hoid does not make an appearance. Unfortunately, he needed to be somewhere else in the timeline at this point.)