Quotes About Appearance

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

Wow. Nice bike," I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

A ses yeux, celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs de bonté était bon, celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs de loyauté était loyal. Celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs d'intelligence, intelligent. C'est ainsi qu'il n'avait jamais vu clair en sa fille, ni en sa femme, ni en sa seule et unique maîtresse – il était sans doute loin de voir clair en lui...

but all that rose to the surface was more surface.

Someone to whom the tangible and the immediate are repugnant, to whom only the illusion is fully real.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

when i first saw him i thought he was as beautiful as a knight from the romances, like a troubadour, like a poet. I thought i could be like a lady in a tower and he could sing beneath my window and persuade me to love him. But although he has the looks of a poet he doesn't have the wit. I can never get more than two words out of him, and i begin to feel that i demean myself in trying to please him.

He has such kind eyes." "Certainly he has eyes, but they do not have the power of emotion, only of sight.

I will try to remember this day, and you looking like a child, a little lost among all these clothes. I will try to remember that you were innocent of any plotting; that today at least, you were more a girl than a Boleyn." ?

You are lucky in your looks," she says. "Your mother was always a beauty and you are very like her: fair, slender, skin like a rose petal and that wonderful hair, gold and bronze all at once. Undoubtedly you will have beautiful children. I suppose you are still proud of your looks? I suppose you are still vain?" I

in the mirror. Her breasts were inches higher than their usual position, it

His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold.

Appearance tyrannizes over truth.

Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.

there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who says Youth is most charming when the beard first appears?

For the extreme of injustice is to seem to be just when one is not.

The great enemy of Plato is the world, not exactly in the theological sense, yet in one not wholly different--the world as the hater of truth and lover of appearance, occupied in the pursuit of gain and pleasure rather than of knowledge, banded together against the few good and wise men, and devoid of true education.

Pues bien, del mismo modo el malo, si ha de ser un hombre auténticamente malo, debe reali­zar con destreza sus malas acciones y pasar inadvertido con ellas. Y al que se deje sorprender en ellas hay que considerarlo inhábil, pues no hay mayor perfección en el mal que el parecer ser bueno no siéndolo.

Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.

cuenta Estesí­coro que, por ignorancia de la verdad, se luchó ante Troya en torno a la apariencia de Helena?

La mayor perfección en la injusticia es parecer justo sin serlo." (Platón, República)