Quotes About Appearance

Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man's good character is marked by his impeccable attire.

Hearsay was far more important than knowledge[...]for it is easier to appear knowledgeable than to become so.

Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.

Mystery" referred to realities behind the appearances that one could observe by means of the senses. That is to say, though our hands, eyes, ears, nose, and tongue are able to access reality, they cannot fully grasp this reality. They cannot comprehend it.

I only appear to be dead.

Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Arte es algo cuyo «uso», en vez de ser un verdadero utilizar, se cumple de modo peculiar en un demorarse contemplativo en la apariencia.

Take it from me, wrinkle cream doesn't work. I've been using it for two years, and my balls still look like raisins.

At forty-eight, she was still a strikingly handsome woman with thick, dark hair, almond eyes, a soft, full-lipped mouth

Let me tell you, I may look old but that's just because of my age.

If you wipe the screen clean, you must accept the truth of what then appears.

My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone.

The nature of the ray is to extend and withdraw, to appear and disappear; and the duration of its existence is short when compared with the duration of the eternal

Thw world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

You look pretty, as always," he said. Azalea grinned, deciding not to remind him that the last times he had seen her, she had been soaked, frozen, unconscious, and a torn mess of the undead.

It looked like his ponytail had revolted against him," said Bramble.

Of course, Zach Nortan could show up at school in a garbage bag and still look great.

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

How did you teach your small human that it's what's inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with what you put on over the outside too?

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.