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Quotes About Appearance

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
~ George Washington
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.
~ Josh Billings
A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.
~ Klaus Nomi
I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.
~ Lady Randolph Churchill
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
~ Paul Valery
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
~ William Shakespeare
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
~ Saul Bellow
Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.
~ Stuart Weitzman
In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.
~ Tad R. Callister
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
~ William Shakespeare
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
~ Yoko Ono
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
~ Irving Babbitt
Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.
~ Jerry Hall
A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
~ Kingsley Amis
After 40, a man is responsible for his face.
~ George Orwell
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?
~ George Orwell
A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.
~ Michele Bachmann
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
~ Martial
Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
~ Ovid
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
~ Henry Fielding
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.
~ Howard Stern