Quotes About Appearance

Soit dit en passant, c'est une chose assez hideuse que le succès. Sa fausse ressemblance avec le mérite trompe les hommes.

était bien fait de sa personne, quoique d'assez petite

God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.

She found him insipid, silly, stupid, useless, conceited, offensive, impertinent—and extremely ugly. The

She was a pretty blonde with fine teeth. For dowry, she had gold and pearls; but the gold was on her head and the pearls were in her mouth.

These young men were insignificant; everyone has seen such faces; four specimens of the human race taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that charming April which is called 20 years.

You see me no more comfortable in it than a cat coiffed with a calabash.

Oh! oh! he said, with a smile; to all appearance, this is a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put themselves under shelter.

There are people who read very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word of honor as to what they are perusing.

It was Gwynplaine's laugh which created the laughter of others, yet he did not laugh himself. His face laughed; his thoughts did not. The extraordinary face which chance or a special and weird industry had fashioned for him, laughed alone. Gwynplaine had nothing to do with it.

All around her mouth, tufts of white hair gave her the whiskered appearance of a cat.

Era un individuo sulla sessantina, con una faccia da uomo d'affari e un'aria da briccone: due cose che spesso vanno insieme.

The cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed.

A life, not merely an existence. That was her dream: a world in which her life and her choices were not defined by the rheumatic fever she'd contracted at fourteen, a life where she uncovered strengths heretofore unknown, where she was judged on more than her appearance.

My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse.

He was lanky, wiry as an apostrophe mark, and dressed in clothes that appeared to have come from a beggar's bin.

Just a boy with black hair and a sharp face who tells lies. He's nothing.

It circled back to her looks, as most snide comments did. Surely a pretty blond girl had to be shallow and dim-witted.

Smiling too brightly

and a pronounced chin and deep-set gray

Rachel, as tall as the boys, with eyebrows that grew faster than a lie and a voice like a foghorn.

Her age made her particularly invisible to those who cared most about appearance and power;

Die Bouillon", sagte die Prinzessin, "sieht aus wie Wasser in Halbtrauer!" - "So schmeckt sie auch.

Identical twins are no different from everyone else, except we look and sometimes sound exactly alike.