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Quotes About Appearance

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
~ Michael J. Fox
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
~ Michel de Montaigne
While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.
~ Neil Gaiman
He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.
~ Pat Boone
I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
~ Patrick Stewart
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
~ Oscar Wilde
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?
~ Oscar Wilde
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.
~ Robertson Davies
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
~ Samuel Johnson
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
~ Sean Connery
Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.
~ Shawn Burr
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
~ Sydney J. Harris
I think that they haven't been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
~ Tom Ford
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.
~ William Shakespeare
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
~ William Shakespeare
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
~ William Shakespeare
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.
~ Alexander Pope
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.
~ Simon Munnery
I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.
~ Sylvia Plath
I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.
~ Jack Huston
The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.
~ Joan Rivers
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
~ John Eldredge