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Quotes About Appearance

Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.
~ Charlie Brooker
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.
~ Charlie Brooker
Actually, perhaps they're just trying to remind themselves where they are. After all, sitting there with Jeremy [Kyle] and his iridescent pupils glistening before them, confronted by a studio audience so ugly they'd make John Merrick spew down the inside of his face-bag, the poor sods could be forgiven for forgetting they were on national television and starting to believe they were somewhere in the bowels of hell instead.
~ Charlie Brooker
Since, replied Arabella, that uneasiness has neither made you thinner, nor paler, I don't think you ought to be pitied...
~ Charlotte Lennox
Most men's eyes, when you look at them critically, are not like that. They may look at you very expressively, but when you look at them, just as features, they are not very nice.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.
~ Chelsea Cain
Along with the 97 percent of women who can see, I have never been a fan of redheaded men.
~ Chelsea Handler
She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.
~ Cherie Priest
I'd seen better days, but I wasn't about to instigate widespread panic with my appearance, either. I made a show of washing up and pretending that I was an ordinary, civilized woman who was, perhaps, recovering from a bad date—and who had most certainly not been hiding bodies in anybody's basement.
~ Cherie Priest
It's been said that she was young once, but never beautiful.
~ Cherie Priest
I don't think I make a very convincing dude. I think I look more like a lumberjack lesbian with an eating disorder than a kick-ass drag king.
~ Cherie Priest
Some problems in the world seem to exist solely for women. Like not having anything to wear.
~ Chetan Bhagat
my exes who waited within bluetooth range could see me dolled up. After
~ Chetan Bhagat
You're only as old as your most recent selfie looks.
~ Internet meme
Beauty is skin deep, unless you have really bad tattoos.
~ Jacob Calle
Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
~ Noël Coward, 1956
A corpulent man strolled in front of us, sweating and drinking soda from a straw. He was fat enough that each step cost him something.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
~ Mark Twain
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
~ Author Unknown
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
~ John Shirley, unverified
He was a little high-dried man, with a dark squeezed-up face, and small restless black eyes, that kept winking and twinkling on each side of his little inquisitive nose, as if they were playing a perpetual game of bo-peep with that feature.
~ Charles Dickens
A misanthrope hates all mankind, but is kind to everybody, generally too kind. A philanthrope loves the whole human race, but dislikes his wife, his mother, his brother, and his friends and acquaintances. Misanthrope is the potato, — rough and repulsive outside, but good to the core. Philanthrope is a peach, — his manner all velvet and bloom, and his words sweet juice, but his heart of hearts a stone.
~ Charles Reade, White Lies
You look beautiful today. Is that a new Instagram filter you're wearing?
~ Internet meme
You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.
~ Eric Carr