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Quotes About Appearance

She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.
~ Raymond Chandler
It was a nice face, a face you get to like. Pretty, but not so pretty that you would have to wear brass knuckles every time you took it out.
~ Raymond Chandler
There was nothing to it. The Super Chief was on time, as it almost always is, and the subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket.
~ Raymond Chandler
She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all.
~ Raymond Chandler
No visible scars. Hair dark brown, some gray. Eyes brown. Height six feet, one half inch. Weight about one ninety. Name Philip Marlowe. Occupation private detective.
~ Raymond Chandler
From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.
~ Raymond Chandler
Her teeth had the nice shiny look that comes from standing all night in a glass of solution.
~ Raymond Chandler
Suddenly, without any real change in her, she ceased to be beautiful. She looked merely like a woman who would have been dangerous a hundred years ago, and twenty years ago daring, but who today was just Grade B Hollywood.
~ Raymond Chandler
She wore a steel gray business suit and under the jacket a dark blue shirt and a man's tie of lighter shade. The edges of the folded handkerchief in the breast pocket looked sharp enough to slice bread.
~ Raymond Chandler
Her voice was a throaty screech, without melody, as false as her eyebrows and as sharp as her nails. (The King in Yellow)
~ Raymond Chandler
Lace and ruffles, swords and coaches, elegance and leisure, duels and gallant death. All lies. They used perfume instead of soap, their teeth rotted because they never cleaned them, their fingernails smelled of stale gravy. The nobility of France urinated against the walls in the marble corridors of Versailles, and when you finally got several sets of underclothes off the lovely marquise the first thing you noticed was that she needed a bath.
~ Raymond Chandler
His clothes looked as if they had cost a great deal of money and had been slept in. (Guns at Cyrano's)
~ Raymond Chandler
She had that fine-drawn intense look that is sometimes neurotic, sometimes sex-hungry, and sometimes just the result of drastic dieting. I
~ Raymond Chandler
Maybe you don't like tall girls with honey-colored hair and skin like the first strawberry peach the grocer sneaks out of the box for himself.If you don't, I'm sorry for you. (Pearls Are A Nuisance)
~ Raymond Chandler
I didn't say anything. I lit my pipe again. It makes you look thoughtful when you're not thinking.
~ Raymond Chandler
I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I
~ Raymond Chandler
Ata që shpenzojnë paret e tyre për tu eksituar me mënyra të dorës së dytë, janë nevrikë si dukeshat që nuk e gjejnë dot banjën
~ Raymond Chandler
her face fell apart like a bride's pie crust.
~ Raymond Chandler
He looked me up and down, brilliant black eyes sweeping slowly and the silky fringe of long eyelashes following them.
~ Raymond Chandler
He looked a lot more like a dead man than most dead men look.
~ Raymond Chandler
We looked at each other with the clear innocent eyes of a couple of used car salesmen.
~ Raymond Chandler
She had weedy hair of that vague colour which is neither brown nor blond, that hasn't enough life in it to be ginger, and isn't clean enough to be grey.
~ Raymond Chandler
He was a very small man, not more than five feet three and would hardly weigh as much as a butcher's thumb. He had tight brilliant eyes that wanted to look hard, and looked as hard as oysters on the half shell.
~ Raymond Chandler
Es gibt nichts, was leerer aussieht als ein leeres Schwimmbecken
~ Raymond Chandler