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Quotes About Appearance

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall.
~ Author Unknown
As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day. But when the time comes that man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.
~ Mark Twain, 1902
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
~ Oscar Wilde
When a true Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this Sign, that the Dunces are all in Confederacy against him.
~ Jonathan Swift
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
~ Lily Tomlin
An ill man is worst when he appeareth good.
~ Proverb
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be.  The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience.  Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.  He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it.
~ Jack London
He was a large, fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly mountain of fat.
~ Jack London
Các sá»± v?t không ph?i bao gi? cÅ©ng Ä'úng như v? b? ngoài.
~ Jack London
Now then!" cried Vita Palas. "Don't you go slanging me, you raddled old hussy! I know your kind, all skin and spleen, and wrinkles to wrap over all! Your own morals are sewage, you with your dancing-boys and gigolos! Don't you try slanging me any more, or I'll snatch off your wig and really explain what I think of you! It will not be nice! It will turn your long nose blue!
~ Jack Vance
It occurred to me, trying not to hobble in my too-tight slippers, that attire was another form of concealment.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Hartnell's appearance at this time will indubitably require you to address…a conflict, perhaps? It is a rhetorical question. Consider your discomfort and welcome it as the ache necessary for you to become more deeply attuned.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
What is a Sufi?" Sufis are Muslims who emphasize essence over form and substance over appearance in their spiritual practices
~ Jamal Rahman
Remember the story of what your god Yahweh said not far from here? 'Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature. Yahweh seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looketh on the heart.
~ James A. Michener
The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous.
~ James Allen
People make you pay for the way you look, which is also the way you think you look, and what time writes is a record of that collision.
~ James Baldwin
If you look helpless, people react to you in one way and if you look strong, or just come on strong, people react to you in another way, and, since you don't see what they see, this can be very painful.
~ James Baldwin
I think she's a beautiful woman. She may not be beautiful to look at whatever the fuck that means, in this kingdom of the blind.
~ James Baldwin
But that battered word, truth, having made its appearance here, confronts one immediately with a series of riddles and has, moreover, since so many gospels are preached, the unfortunate tendency to make one belligerent.
~ James Baldwin
People make you pay for the way you look, which is also the way you think you look, and what time writes in a human face is the record of that collision.
~ James Baldwin
She is a beautiful woman. She may not be beautiful to look at, whatever the fuck that means in this kingdom of the blind.
~ James Baldwin
If a woman has a good ass the rest of her wil be nicely configured too, except for maybe the face. The face is always on its own.
~ James Carlos Blake
For a woman, old age is never pretty.
~ James Clavell
blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached
~ James Ellroy