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Quotes About Appearance

Shall I call that Wise or foolish, now; if it be really wise it has a foolish look to it; yet, if it be really foolish, then has it a sort of wiseish look to it.
~ Herman Melville
The truth was, I suppose, that a man of so small an income, could not afford to sport such a lustrous face and a lustrous coat at one and the same time.
~ Herman Melville
It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
~ Herman Melville
The whale, like all things that are mighty, wears a false brow to the common world.
~ Herman Melville
You have but noted his fair cheek. A man-trap may be under his fine ruddy-tipped daisies.
~ Herman Melville
Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste-- his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.
~ Herman Melville
All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!
~ Herman Melville
Appearances can be deceptive. Just because someone has a generous chest and a romantic nature doesn't mean they're EASY.
~ Hester Browne
Arrange your face
~ Hilary Mantel
She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?' "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
~ Hilary Mantel
and said to him: 'Eumaios, this is amazing, this dog that lies on the dunghill. The shape of him is splendid, and yet I cannot be certain whether he had the running speed to go with this beauty, or is just one of the kind of table dog that gentlemen 310 keep, and it is only for show that their masters care for them.
~ Homer
and now she appeared a woman, beautiful, tall and skilled at
~ Homer
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
~ Hunter S. Thompson
To them the appearance of the Hell's Angels must have seemed like a wonderful publicity stunt. In a nation of frightened dullards there is a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome: Frank Sinatra, Alexander King, Elizabeth Taylor, Raoul Duke... they have that extra "something".
~ Hunter S. Thompson
They look like caricatures of used-car dealers from Dallas. But they're real. And, sweet Jesus, there are a hell of a lot of them—still
~ Hunter S. Thompson
For all his Caribbean clothes and his Madison Avenue manners, even with his surfside apartment and his Alfa Romeo roadster, there was so much Kansas in Sanderson that it was embarrassing to see him deny it.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Some who were not yet ready to venture into the chapel on Sundays might well put in their first appearance on a Saturday night to see what Y dyn bach ('the little man') had got to say. (The Welsh term has an element of affection in it not obvious in the English)
~ Iain H. Murray
Who you are is less important than what you seem.
~ Iain Pears
It was tied with a Windsor knot. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond decided to forget his prejudice.
~ Ian Fleming
Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity.
~ Ian Fleming
Her breasts were showing and Mr. Player, who was a very strong Quaker, didn't think that was quite proper.
~ Ian Fleming
I decided on moustaches.
~ Ian Fleming
the moustaches on the men were just a lot of moustaches.
~ Ian Fleming