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Quotes About Appearance

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
~ Walter Bageh
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
~ Leonard Woolf
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
~ Greek proverb
There was never a saint with red hair.
~ Russian proverb
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
~ Alexander Pope
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
~ Marian Seldes
I try to look cute all the time.
~ Sloane Stephens
I really try to spend as little time as possible on grooming. I think if you have a good moisturizer and a solid razor to clean up the beard, you're golden.
~ Chris Evans
I try not to go around looking like a hag.
~ Dolly Parton
When you're tanner, you feel hotter and sexier. You should try it.
~ Nicole Polizzi
I don't have a supermodel body. I'm always trying to hide something.
~ Ginevra Elkann
It's a terrific responsibility trying to look right. There is so much to think about - clothes, makeup, hair. You have to look right for your fans.
~ Judith Durham
I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.
~ Kesha
I appeared three times with Jools Holland on 'The Tube.'
~ Paul Young
I haven't had my teeth fixed, I haven't had a hair transplant. I haven't had a skin peel, tummy tuck. I've done literally nothing.
~ Ricky Gervais
I'm not saying my own looks don't give the game away. Nothing I can do about that anymore. A nip and tuck ain't gonna do it.
~ Ava Gardner
My dad told me to tuck my shirt in, look good and respect the game, so that has become embedded in me.
~ Scott Parker
I remember times putting on my shirt and having to tuck my stomach in because I didn't like the way it looked.
~ Marcus Smart
If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.
~ Dolly Parton
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
~ Mary Astell
Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any harm. The Italians still seem enamoured of Silvio Berlusconi - a man whose entry into a room is less likely to be greeted with the Italian national anthem than by the Benny Hill theme tune.
~ Rory Bremner