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Quotes About Appearance

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
~ Charles Dickens
One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
~ Solomon
The apparel oft proclaims the man.
~ William Shakespeare
What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.
~ Benny Hinn
I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.
~ Roddy Doyle
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
~ Oscar Wilde
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
~ Homer
A man should dress in a way that you don't notice. He looks good and you don't know why. But it's the tailoring, the materials, and the clothes.
~ Michael Caine
I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
~ Bill Nighy
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.
~ George Best
Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.
~ George Michael
Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
~ Alexander Pope
Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.
~ C.P. Snow
Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
~ Doris Lilly
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
He was forty-seven years old but in dim light could have passed for thirty.
~ Neal Stephenson
By outward appearances, Cantabrigia Five was a video journalist. But it made sense that, in a world where no police or military action could be judged successful unless it looked good to ordinary persons watching it on video screens, she was also a general.
~ Neal Stephenson
Moira wished she spoke better Russian so that she could talk to Tekla about her ideas regarding appearance and grooming. The facial scars put her well outside the norms of feminine beauty and she had doubled down by electing to keep the buzz cut. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, she was, to put it bluntly, kind of hot. Moira hated to say it. But hotness was a part of the human condition and it was pointless to pretend that it did not exist.
~ Neal Stephenson
I feared he might be trying to grow a beard again.
~ Neal Stephenson
No one would be fooled, but propriety would be maintained.
~ Neal Stephenson
He seemed not to know that he was quite handsome.
~ Neal Stephenson
Your avatar can look any way you want it to, up to the limitations of your equipment. If you're ugly, you can make your avatar beautiful. If you've just gotten out of bed, your avatar can still be wearing beautiful clothes and professionally applied makeup. You can look like a gorilla or a dragon or a giant talking penis in the Metaverse. Spend five minutes walking down the Street and you will see all of these.
~ Neal Stephenson