Quotes About Appearance

Everything that we experience is a communication . In fact, so is the world too a communication -- the revelation of spirit. The time is gone when the spirit of God was comprehensible to us. The meaning of the world has been lost to us. We have seen only its letters. We have lost that which is appearing behind the appearance.

No todo lo que brilla ha de ser oro: siempre oíste decir al mundo a coro. Ha vendido su vida mucha gente por mirarme por fuera solamente: no hay tumba de oro sin gusano y lloro. Si fueras tan sensato como osado, joven de cuerpo y viejo en buen sentido, tal respuesta no habrías recibido: adiós: tu pretensión ha fracasado

Debe rebasarse necesariamente la corteza para descubrir, tras la apariencia, la verdadera esencia de las cosas. El envoltorio, en definitiva, no cuenta. Un precepto que vale para juzgar no sólo las palabras, sino también las cosas y los hombres.

çevrendeki her ?eyi kesin çizgilerle ikiye ay?rd?n. (Bu bak?mdan da sana benzedi?imi itiraf etmeliyim.) Dünyada yaln?z güzellerle çirkinler vard?, bir insan ya ak?ll?yd? ya da aptal, senin gibi ba??n? dik tutmas?n? bilemeyen bütün insanlar dalkavuktu; sana benzemeyen kibar davran??l? insanlar? da züppelikle suçlard?n.

It seems inevitable that people who can't read are going to lean more toward judging candidates on the way they look and sound than on what they claim they stand for. Even people who can read and are educated are apt to pay more attention to good looks and seductive lies than they should. And no doubt the new picture ballots on the nets will give Jarret an even greater advantage.

I don't see what's so funny about a man combing his beard," he muttered, and put way his comb.

I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

the face turns out to be one of the most superficial characteristics of the whole human form),

?wiat si? sko?czy?, cho? zatrzyma? pozory trwania. Tak wygl?da prawdziwy koniec.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?

was probably significant that he was physically short-sighted. He could not recognise people until almost upon them. Their faces were like so many buns. Good-natured buns, he would have said, but Harriet did not agree. She saw them in detail and did not like them any the better for it.

We are all fools when one wise man appears.

The inner, the real and the unseen are irrelevant in today's world. All that counts is appearance, and the world of consumerism has lost no time in catering to every need, and then creating even more, in this burgeoning market of the appearance.

There was something wrong about thse people. But perhaps, just as it is true of my love, they could not go on living except in the way they do. If it is true that man, once born into the world, must somehow live out his life, perhaps the appearance that people make in order to go through with it, even if it is as ugly as their appearance, should not be despised. To be alive. To be alive. An intolerably immense undertaking before which one can only gasp in apprehension.

Most people would take me for over forty.

Something hard about her gives you the impression less of a beautiful woman than of a handsome young man.

My surroundings are becoming as bright as I am. Until now, usually, haven't the places we appeared automatically become bright and splendid?

Everyone kept saying that I was the ugliest boy in the family. And if they had known how fussy I was about clothes, they would surely have had a good laugh at my expense. I pretended not to care about my appearance, and this seemed to do the trick. I gave the impression of being dull and uncouth, no doubt about it. It was awful hearing them remark over and over how ugly I was.

It was merely that a ne'er-do-well such as Harada will bungle things whenever good fortune smiles upon him. People like him become fidgety and sheepish at the sudden appearance of fortune. "Good luck brings bad,

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.