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Quotes About Appearance

A man without a moustache is like a cup of tea without sugar.
~ English proverb
I'm not growing a beard; I'm just too lazy to shave.
~ Erik Gagnon, 2000
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
~ Gore Vidal
Daja: Die Menschen sind nicht immer, was sie scheinen. Tempelherr: Doch selten Etwas Besser.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Ein ehrlicher Mann mag stecken, in welchem Kleide er will, man muss ihn lieben.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
You know it really doesn't matter about clothes if we look clean and neat and behave well. I think we've been placing too high a value on looks anyway. Of course looks do count a little, but they are, after all, only a trifle beside real worth. And, if we can't impress that girl with our refinement by our actions, why, we can put on all the clothes in the universe, and we won't be able to do it any better.
~ Grace Livingston Hill
I love mirrors,' he had once heard Fulgrim say. 'They let one pass through the surface of things.
~ Graham McNeill
For the valour of a youth will often kindle a maid, and the courage of those whose looks are not so winning is often acceptable.
~ Grammaticus Saxo
Philip owned a looking-glass, and was therefore accustomed to a very high standard of manly beauty.
~ Grant Allen
It wasn't a beautiful face. But it was a nice face. It wasn't a face that could launch a thousand ships. Maybe two ships and a small yacht.
~ Grant Naylor
Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
~ Greek proverb
Don't waste the pretty
~ Greg Behrendt
Tony was a large man, about six feet, two-fifty. Much of his size came from muscle, though it wasn't readily apparent from his appearance. His face was round, his features soft. A thin sheen of sweat seemed always to cover his cheeks, and his snug-fitting shirt usually showed spots of dampness on the back. Jade couldn't remember ever having seen him when he wasn't sweaty.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Just as many questions might be started for debate among people sitting up at night as to the kind of thing that sunshine is, and then the simple appearing of it in all its beauty would render any verbal description superfluous, so every calculation that tries to arrive conjecturally at the future state will be reduced to nothingness by the object of our hopes, when it comes upon us.
~ Gregory of Nyssa
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
~ Groucho Marx
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
~ Groucho Marx
Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.
~ Groucho Marx
He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
~ Groucho Marx
Pourquoi croit-on que derrière un beau visage se cache obligatoirement une belle âme?Pourquoi vit-on à une époque ou tout le monde veut être jeune et svelte alors que, après un certain age le combat est perdu d'avance?
~ Guillaume Musso
Tom Hiddleston is so fucking nice. It used to be in the past you were either nice, or you were good-looking and an asshole.
~ Guillermo del Toro
It was well known that she was a junk-food fiend. It was probably what kept her from the waif physique of the most popular girls. Personally I didn't care what king of saturated fats and granulated sugars were to blame for that excellent figure.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Vestía pantalones azules muy ajustados y un suéter de lana. Era fea como un escupitajo, pero muy elegante.
~ Guillermo Fadanelli
I never trust mere appearance - one's senses offer such an insecure guarantee of abstract perception. - What's The Use of White Dog Shit?
~ Gustav Meyrink
Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.
~ Guy Debord