Quotes About Appearance

Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same.

Cardan's eyebrows rise, but he has all the appearance of blissful unconcern. "My lady, you flatter me. I had no idea you were interested." Her gaze is unflinching as she passes her gift to one of Cardan's personal guard. "May you grow into the wisdom of your counselors." "The fervent prayer of many," he says.

That was the problem with monsters. Sometimes they looked just like everybody else.

Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?' Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question in to something like a compliment. 'No,' I say, glad to be annoyed back in to the present. 'Tell me.' 'I cannot,' he says, then frowns.

Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?" "No. Tell me." "I cannot.

Too often, people acted like her curves were some engraved invitation.

I look at him again, at his soft mouth and his high cheekbones, at the cruel beauty of his face. page 142

Looking past Lucien and Elisabet, Tana finally saw Aidan. He was underdressed, slouching against a wall in a black silk shirt over black jeans. Tana wondered if Midnight had picked out those clothes for him and then wondered if they'd been borrowed from Rufus. Steeling herself, she walked over to him, giving a wide berth to any other vampire she saw. "Tana!" Aidan said, looking incredibly pleased to see her right up to the moment when she punched him in the face.

In this hair, and with this dress, I look pretty. The kind of pretty that allows monsters to deceive people into forests, into dances where they will find their doom.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNET CXLVII

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest, with black hair as iridescent as a raven's wing and cheekbones sharp enough to cut out a girl's heart. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?" "No, tell me." "I can't.

He's supposed to look regal. I helped choose the clothes, helped make him this way, and yet the effect is not lost on me.

I am no Court lady with lips of carmine and butterflies in my hair. I am scrawny, like a stick bug.

Have I told you how hideous you look tonight? No. Tell me I cannot.

She looks soft, pretty, like a girl in a painting. Like a girl who fits inside her own skin.

Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same. So too, power.

HIs words stood as a reminder, though, that no matter how soft he seemed or how young, he was as capable of cruelty as the rest.

Aaron looks like a con man who got hit with a shrink ray and you look like you're going to Catholic school.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Madame de Nucingen was already there, dressed with the deliberate aim of appealing to all eyes, knowing that thereby she would seem even more attractive to Eugène.

A line is a method of expressing the effect of light upon an object; but there are no lines in Nature, everything is solid. We draw by modeling, that is to say, that we disengage an object from its setting; the distribution of the light alone gives to a body the appearance by which we know it.

Elle était jolie par juxtaposition.

Quelque mal que l'on te dise du monde, crois?le ! il n'y a pas de Juvénal qui puisse en peindre l'horreur couverte d'or et de pierreries.