Quotes About Appearance

On Ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like.

On the outside it doesn't look like very much happened. A burned girl was in my class for a while. Once I brought her some homework. In class she said my name. Then she was gone. That's pretty much all that happened.

I learned long ago that a good-looking man in the right suit with a winning smile can get what he wants. All it takes is the ability to tell a story.

We looked each other up and down, checking out how the other looked. She won that battle. Her tailored suit was well made, her dark silk stocking tops visible just beneath her too-short skirt. Her make-up was immaculate: bright red lips and highlighted eyes stood out against her smooth, almost imperceptible foundation. And there I stood in my frayed grey trousers, my leaking black brogues and my gaudy military jacket.

Clement Attlee, who looked like a sadistic sanitary inspector...

On the National Executive sat Charles Clarke, looking like a rather manky chimpanzee with his unkempt beard, jug ears and his air of surly aggression.

Looking good is the best revenge.

Sweet pulp and sour skin - Or was it sweet outside, and sour within?

He has grown older, the skin around his eyes is cobwebbed with fine creases, and his hair's thinner, softer, suffused with gray. His brow has grown smoother.

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

Alle hatten den Zauberer lachen gesehen, aber niemand vermutete, dass er lächeln konnte. Jetzt breitete sich jedoch ein Lächeln auf seinem Gesicht aus. Er war so froh, dass es überall sichtbar wurde, an seinen Ohren, an seinem Hut, an seinen Stiefeln!

IVY: Mom believes women don't grow more attractive with age. KAREN: Oh, I disagree, I— VIOLET: I didn't say they "don't grow more attractive," I said they get ugly. And it's not really a matter of opinion, Karen dear. You've only just started to prove it yourself.

A nun's habit is authentic, but wearing one doesn't make you a nun.

BARBARA: God, Deon, you look really good. You really . . . filled out. Nicely, I mean. You just look great. SHERIFF GILBEAU: Thanks. BARBARA: How 'bout me, don't I look good? SHERIFF GILBEAU: Yes, sorry, yes. You look great, too, just great.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

Physical appearance is more straightforward—what you wear sends a pretty clear, established message about how you feel. For example, wearing old sweatpants and ratty T-shirts and having disheveled hair every day tells the world you've given up, while overdressing for every occasion and never missing your weekly haircut lets people know you are trying too hard.

You can wear whatever you want, just so long as you have on trouser, shoes, and a shirt.

it was alarming even to look at his face.

Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

The shabby look was not his tailor's fault; the Arab's body was not designed for clothes requiring posture and discipline.

You don't need to look like a monster to be one,' replied the Doctor.

A man can smile and smile yet still be a villain,' I quoted. (Or misquoted. It was probably Shakespeare, most quotations seem to be.)

It was a face beyond childhood, yet this side of belonging to a woman. I thought her anywhere between sixteen and thirty; as it turned out, she was shy two months of her nineteenth birthday.