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Quotes About Appearance

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
~ R. D. Laing
My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.
~ Chic Murray
Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.
~ Dolly Parton
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.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.
~ William F. Longgood
Beauty is a social necessity.
~ James Goldsmith
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
~ Oscar Wilde
Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
~ Kin Hubbard
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
~ Oscar Wilde
Without the proper care, there's no beauty. Without beauty, there's no boyfriend.
~ Lee Bo-na
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
~ Jean Paul
Hold fast to youth and beauty.
~ Elizabeth Arden
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.
~ Mack Sennett
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
~ Kahlil Gibran
I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.
~ Hayden Panettiere
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
~ Margaret Cho
Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.
~ Eric Maisel
... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
~ Edith Sitwell
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
~ Jane Austen
Inner beauty is for amateurs.
~ Anne Taintor
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
~ Edmund Burke