Quotes About Appearance

This is the only way another creature can be known: on the surface, that's where there is depth.

When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos.

This is the only way another creature can be known: on the surface, that's where there is depth.

She trained her camera on a fresh-faced hopeful but the pictures she produced were the mug-shots of a raddled old confidence trickster. Exposed, yes, that is the word

The skin of his weather-beaten face and the backs of his hands is wrinkled and brown and shiny, like shiny brown paper that had been used to wrap something unwrappable.

Just because someone looks sky at night, doesn`t mean it is astronaut.

My six uncles, their dark hair glistening with rose-scented lacquer, sat next to her in ascending order of age and stupidity. >> In her absence they would say that she had always been a floozy and this mattered a great deal to my mother, for she and the person they would fashion from their sordid imaginations would have little in common except for a name.

He'd always been a handsome man, of course, and his good looks had stayed with him into old age, as they so often do with undeserving men.

And, you'll forgive me for sounding immodest, but i know that i'm good-looking. Throughout my life, both men and women have made their interest in me obvious. But I can't control any of that. It was simply the way I was born. Ultimately, it means nothing. I could have a heart of stone for all they know. I could be a psychopath or a sociopath. Not all monsters look like the Elephant Man, and not everyone who looks like the Elephant Man is a monster.

Empezaba a darse cuenta de lo maleducadas que podían ser algunas personas cuando se topaban con alguien de un aspecto un poco distinto

You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

I find that many handsome young men are cads

Then I knew that the prophecy had been true, and that their prophet had not failed them. The long-looked for revelation had come. Greenmantle had appeared at last to an awaiting people.

Este árbol", dijo él, "cuyo exterior se ve bien y cuyo interior está podrido, es a quien muchos que están en el huerto de Dios pueden compararse; quienes con su boca hablan grandes cosas en nombre de Dios, pero ciertamente no hacen nada por Él; cuyas hojas son bonitas, pero su corazón no es bueno para nada excepto para ser leña para el diablo".

Donald Wryson was a large man with thinning fair hair and the cheerful air of a bully, but he was a bully only in the defense of rectitude, class distinctions, and the orderly appearance of things.

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor. Evarts Malloy was very thin. He had worked as a bus driver and he stooped a little

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

The other person at the Frost Report table to whom I was drawn was one Marty Feldman. I hasten to add that my interest in him was platonic: in fact when I first met him, I was rather shocked by his physical appearance. Dressed only in black, heavily suntanned and very fit, he looked like an Armani gargoyle. This was the script editor?

I made my first public appearance on the stairs up to the school nurse's room, at St. Peter's Preparatory School, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, on September 13, 1948.

A ugly man with money often has his arm a beautiful lady who is willing to spend it.

Don't let him, trick you into thinking he will always be there for you, because the minute a more prettier women walks into the room, your feelings are the last thing on his mind.

Dress for success, to impress and to make your ex want to kick himself for letting you go.

I begin to hate you for your face and not just the things you do.

And when you see them, their persons will please you, and If they speak, you will listen to their speech; (they are) as if they were big pieces of wood clad with garments; they think every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, therefore beware of them; may Allah destroy them, whence are they turned back? And when it is said to them: Come, the Apostle of Allah will ask forgiveness for you, they turn back their heads and you may see them turning away while they are big with pride.