Quotes About Appearance

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

All that glisters is not gold.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

As a beauty I am not a star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar.

I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas, And yet he semed bisier that he was.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

The clothes make the man.

The soul of this man is his clothes.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

Of two evils, choose the prettier.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

"What is your fortune, my pretty maid?" "My face is my fortune, sir," she said.

There are bearded fools.

The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.