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Quotes About Appearance

He wouldn't have seen the wolf in redneck clothing.
~ Lauren Myracle
This was the first time since I'd started working there that I hadn't received a look of all-out disgust or, at the very least, a snarky comment, and all it had taken was a SWAT team of New York fashion editors, a collection of Parisian hair and makeup stylists, and a hefty selection of the world's finest and most expensive clothing.
~ Lauren Weisberger
The giant crabs, despite their horrifying appearance, became an essential source of food for the sailors.
~ Laurence Bergreen
A thread of quantum vibration traverses all revelations and appearances of reality in whatever form it may take.
~ Laurence Galian
Love that is conditional upon looks and performance is not love at all
~ Laurence Heller
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
~ Laurence Peter
No amount of careful grooming seemed to erase their impression that he was actually a foul and frightening ogre. It was enough to give a fellow self-doubts.
~ Celeste Bradley
She still powdered her nose after cooking and before eating; she still put on lipstick before coming downstairs to make breakfast. So they called it keeping house for a reason. Marilyn thought. Sometimes it did run away.
~ Celeste Ng
Here, people hold bags not meant to carry, but to be pretty.
~ Celeste Ng
Quarrelling could do more damage to the appearance of a house than a party for fifty people, all drunk.
~ Celia Fremlin
Will I stop describing, as only a true Southerner can, a truly awful physical appearance as simply "most unfortunate" as in, "She has a most unfortunate nose"?
~ Celia Rivenbark
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~ Cesare Pavese
Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green eyes. Howard stares at them like a lover, but always obliquely. (Sometimes we watch our son from a distance. "I wonder what he's thinking," Howard will say.)
~ Chandler Burr
Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror. "Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.
~ Charlaine Harris
These tall and handsome ships, swaying imperceptibly on tranquil waters, these sturdy ships, with their inactive, nostalgic appearance, dont they say to us in a speechless tongue: When do we cast off for happiness?
~ Charles Baudelaire
Prose writers, by contrast, are unreliable friends: They are always studying you to see if there's anything in your personality or appearance that they can steal for their next narrative.
~ Charles Baxter
game of deducing a person's character from that person's appearance is an old pastime with racists and with those who seek an advantage over the poor or the ugly, the disabled, or any underrepresented minority.
~ Charles Baxter
He gave the impression of being clean and dry as though he had been pressed between two large blotters which had absorbed all his vital juices.
~ Charles Baxter
The sleek locks, neat apparel, pacific guise, sobriety and gentleness of aspect by which I was customarily distinguished, would in vain be sought in the apparition which would now present itself before them. My legs, neck, and bosom were bare, and their native hue was exchanged for the livid marks of bruises and scarifications. A horrid scar upon my cheek, and my uncombed locks; hollow eyes, made ghastly by abstinence and cold . . . would prepossess them with the notion of a maniac or ruffian.
~ Charles Brockden Brown
Nails can be varnished, But they also claw. (Ongles peuvent être vernis, - Mais ils griffent aussi.)
~ Charles de Leusse
All is gas and gaiters.
~ Charles Dickens
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
~ Charles Dickens
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.
~ Charles Dickens
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
~ Charles Dickens