Quotes About Appearance

People look at the outside of a person and assume they know everything there is to know about the inside of that person. The trouble is a few coats of paint and some new shutters can do a lot for the exterior of a house, but tell you nothing about its foundation or its ability to weather life's storms. I would say the same is true of people.

Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.

A dimple in the chin a devil within.

But Godenheimer's had the best and cheapest silver foxes, and buttered Frau Breitwehr up, and called her "Madam" every other sentence. So she bought the silver fox fur. When she wears it, they look like a rich fur taking a poor woman out for a walk.

Pretty girls are a business' I say, 'and that has nothing do to with love

I make it a point to look as healthy and attractive as I can at all times," Boylan had explained to Rudolph. "Even if I don't see anybody for weeks on end. It's a form of self-respect.

You're a good model for a German soldier, except for the hair. You look as though you once had a thought in your head and that's hard to find.

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

Public speaking is only bad if your clothes don't fit correctly.

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Lines don't make beautiful women less beautiful

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

Whatever kind of gentlemen you may be, you have a shabby appearance. Yet even in front of the extraordinary beauty of the exalted Seven Gods of Good Fortune, you show no reserve, but deliberately gather and entertain yourselves with elegance.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Her friends' lips were red, their teeth white, and their tongues and gums were pink. Pink, too, were the tips of their breasts. Their eyes were aquamarine blue, cherry-black, hazel and maroon.

He had to follow the opposite path: aim at a portrait completely on the surface, evident, unequivocal, that did not elude conventional appearance, the stereotype, the mask. The mask, being first of all a social, historical product, contains more truth than any image claiming to be "true";

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

Every appearance or sound is like an illusion, mirage, or reflection; It is substance without the mark of reality. The mind that perceives such illusion is like space.