Quotes About Appearance

He quirked an eyebrow briefly, slightly, in such a way that no one afterwards might be able to safely accuse him of having done it. Sei knew the look. Names are meaningless, plosives and breath, but those who liked the slope of her waist often made much of hers, which denoted purity, clarity—as though it had any more in the way of depth than others. They wondered, all of them, if she really was pure, as pure as her name announced her to be, all white banners and hymeneal grace.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

I think I look a little like a pumpkin," whispered September, secretly delighted. "I'm all green and orange.

They snickered behind her back in tones that sent up prickly hedges all around their tight huddles of lace dresses and ribboned curls.

The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.

She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.

Makeup is such a weird concept. I'll wake up in the morning and look in the mirror: "Gee, I really don't look so good. Maybe if my eyelids were blue, I'd be more attractive."

His beard might once have reached to his waist, but his waist had grown off and left his beard high and dry.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

Por las uñas de un hombre, por las mangas de su abrigo, por sus botas, por las rodillas de sus pantalones, por los callos de su dedo índice y pulgar, por su expresión, por los puños de su camisa, por sus movimientos, por cada una de estas cosas la vocación de un hombre queda claramente revelada. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Estudio en escarlata

At that moment a short, broad figure emerged from the house, looking absurdly like a giant panda dressed in a butler's black suit with a white shirt and black tie. Its round panda face had a spotlight for a nose, two eye lenses, large ears, and a speaker for a mouth.

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys.

Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appea something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

Feeling dissatisfied with yourself, how you look, the person you are, or how you feel is an almost universal female experience within our culture. Even when we outwardly reject the cultural mores, many of us are still left with internalised feelings of inadequacy, of not quite 'measuring up'. Women, in particular, are encouraged to focus on their appearance and body shape—hence the success of special diets, low-fat foods, slimming aids and cosmetic surgery.

Non t'accorgi, Diavolo, che tu sei bella come un Angelo?

La pazienza è la più eroica delle virtù giusto perché non ha nessuna apparenza d'eroico.

I looked at her. She wore a very tight and tiny two-piece orange bathing swimsuit that inadequately covered the overplump body I'd been using as a forget-yourself machine.

Com a psicologização do parecer abre-se o prazer narcísico de se metamorfosear aos olhos dos outros e de si mesmo, de "mudar de pele", de se tornar e de se sentir como uma outra, mudando de toalete.

O processo de moda reestruturou a comunicação política: ninguém entra aqui se não for sedutor e tranquilo, a competição democrática passa pelos jogos do aliciamento, pelos paraísos artificiais do entertainment, da aparência, da personalidade midiática.

When I was in my early 30s and appeared on CNN, Oprah, 20/20 and Entertainment Tonight, my loved ones didn't say, "Good job!" My loved ones said, "The camera adds more than 20 pounds." One detail-oriented aunt said "Not for nothing, but don't wear red. You look like an ad for Red Lobster.

I believe such compassion and prudence is good politics on the part of Mother Marina. If our convent cannot be completely virtuous, better to give the appearance of being so. Thus she keeps her nuns happy as well as the government and the church.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'