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Quotes About Appearance

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.
~ James Laver
Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
~ Julie Burchill
Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.
~ Kin Hubbard
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
~ Laurence Sterne
Sorry men, but I think boys are a little more oblivious in high school. Girls are just more sensitive. We're so concerned about how we look and how we're doing.
~ Sigourney Weaver
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
~ William Shakespeare
For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
~ Yuliya Snigir
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
~ Fred Astaire
There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
~ Marie de France
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
~ Ann Radcliffe
There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.
~ Barry Webster
Love potions? For Will Herondale? T'aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that's a fact.
~ Cassandra Clare
Donald Trump is on the show tonight. Donald is a big man, I think 230 pounds -- 235 with cologne.
~ David Letterman
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
~ Gene Tunney
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.
~ George Catlin
He is the only man I ever met with a seersucker face.
~ Henny Youngman
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult.
~ Teresa Monachino
For all of its glamour and frivolity, fashion happens to be a relevant and powerful force in our lives. At every level of society, people care greatly about the way they look, which affects both their self-esteem and the way other people interact with them.
~ Teri Agins
We were both covered in little flecks of wood, leaves, and bark. Steve's hair was unkempt, a couple of his shirt buttons were missing, and his shorts were torn. I thought he was the best-looking man I had ever seen in my life.
~ Terri Irwin