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Quotes About Appearance

It is true that ordinarily her voice was shrill, her face hard and sharp as a hatchet, her figure lumpy, and her intentions selfish.
~ John Steinbeck
It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous.
~ John Steinbeck
His nostrils and ears were large and full of hair. They looked as though furry little animals were hiding in them.
~ John Steinbeck
You got to be awful rich to dress as bad as you do," he said.
~ John Steinbeck
Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child.
~ John Updike
Dignitaries look alike, always dressed in mourning.
~ John Updike
Their terrible outward appearance is actually a disguise adopted by deities embodying wisdom and compassion to help us attain greater understanding and kindness toward ourselves and toward others
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
~ Pam Grier
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
~ Frances Conroy
Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.
~ Sara Shepard
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
~ Sister Parish
Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.
~ Woody Allen
A scout is a boy who dresses like a schmuck. A scoutmaster is a schmuck who dresses like a boy.
~ Anonymous
just because a mage wears the black robes does not make him evil.
~ Margaret Weis
Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.
~ William Shakespeare
"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."
~ Judy Sheindlin
I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.
~ Jane Fonda
Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.
~ Sue Townsend
We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
~ Charles Peguy
As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!
~ Jonathan Brandis
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
~ Plutarch
If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.
~ Amelie Nothomb
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
~ Isabelle Adjani