Quotes About Appearance

With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

MRS ALLONBY You have your looking-glass LORD ILLINGWORTH It is unkind. I merely shows me my wrinkles. MRS ALLONBY Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth. LORD ILLINGWORTH Then it is in love with you.

Lady Bracknell: Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with education? Chasuble: (Somewhat indignantly) She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of respectability. Lady Bracknell: It is obviously the same person.

One should not look at anything. Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors is it well to look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly

The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about the public.

Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. 

Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slightest breath.

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

Sim, é uma horrenda injustiça. Eu faço uma grande distinção entre as pessoas. Escolho os amigos pela aparência, os conhecidos pelo carácter e os inimigos pelo intelecto. Nunca é demais o cuidado que se põe na escolha dos inimigos. Não quero um que seja parvo. Todos eles têm uma certa intelectualidade, e, por conseguinte, todos eles me apreciam. É ser muito vaidoso? Parece-me que é sê-lo um bocadinho.

I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.

I admit that i think it is better to be beautiful then to be good. But on the other hand no one is more ready to admit then i, it is better to be good then ugly.

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything.