Quotes About Appearance

Not to mention how insulting it is to suggest that a beauty like Samiha should be worth no more than a set of dentures.

What an unfriendly country," said Noxon. "Different time, different place," said Wheaton. "We think we're a very welcoming country. Generous and kind. Unless we don't like your language or the way you look.

You couldn't look at children and hope to see much of their parents beyond their physical appearance, and not always that. They came as Wordsworth said, trailing clouds of glory. Along with a few clouds of other things not quite so glorious.

Sometimes people with the least that is worth stealing are the most concerned with giving the appearance of having great treasures hidden away.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think that it is rather vain.

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.