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Quotes About Appearance

Doesn't Cassidy look nice tonight?" "She certainly does," Bob answered. "And I'm sure she has wonderful shaving hygiene too.
~ Janette Rallison
We can't be lovers because we both have mustaches. But since you're a lady, and I'm a gentleman, I'll shave mine off.
~ Jarod Kintz
I wouldn't say I'm superficial, just averagely ficial.
~ Jarod Kintz
I always appear smarter when I dress up in my giant nipple costume. I know this because I'll overhear people say things like, "At least he's not a complete boob.
~ Jarod Kintz
A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.
~ Jason Sudeikis
she barely moved and was, of course, concerned only with her own beautification and cleanliness. She dozed or was, at any rate, lying down, eyes closed, on her front, on her back, on one side, on the other, covered in sunscreen, her gleaming arms and legs always fully extended so that no part of her would remain untanned, no fold in her skin, even her armpits, even her groin (nor, it goes without saying, her buttocks)
~ Javier Marías
For most people, we are only superficial beings, a sketch, a few scrawled lines.
~ Javier Marías
Yo he visto a mujeres no muy guapas ponerse guapísimas en esa situación de medio olvido, no les dura más que lo que dura el polvo, sea mal dicho y a las claras.
~ Javier Marías
summarized as follows: Sunday: Favor with God (spiritual revelation, anointing, holiness). Monday: Favor with others (congregations, ministry staff, unsaved). Tuesday: Increased vision (wisdom and enlightenment, motives, guidance). Wednesday: Spirit, Soul, Body (health, appearance, attitudes
~ Dutch Sheets
The images of things are not the things in themselves.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Julian Singh," he said, extending his hand. No one (a) introduces himself and then (b) extends his hand to be shaken while (c) wearing shorts and (d) knee socks and (e) holding a genuine leather book bag on (f) the first day of school.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
I chose a brunette, a redhead, a blond, and a kid with hair as black as print on paper.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
As long as you are identified with the mind, you have an externally derived sense of self. That is to say, you get your sense of who you are from things that ultimately have nothing to do with who you are: your social role, possessions, external appearance, successes and failures, belief systems, and so on.
~ Eckhart Tolle
my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
I'll bet you're some looker when you're dolled up!
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.
~ Edith Wharton
A woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself
~ Edith Wharton
it is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.
~ Edith Wharton
The whole truth? Miss Bart laughed. What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her
~ Edith Wharton
That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.
~ Edith Wharton
Your coat's a little shabby—but who cares? It doesn't keep people from asking you to dine. If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself. The clothes are the background, the frame, if you like: they don't make success, but they are a part of it. Who wants a dingy woman? We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed till we drop—and if we can't keep it up alone, we have to go into partnership.
~ Edith Wharton
If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself. The clothes are the background, the frame, if you like; they don't make success, but they are a part of it. Who wants a dingy woman? We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed till we drop—and if we can't keep it up alone, we have to go into partnership.
~ Edith Wharton
if the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to—to offensive insinuations—'' She
~ Edith Wharton
Society is a revolving body which is apt to be judged according to its place in each man's heaven; and at present it was turning its illuminated face to Lily.
~ Edith Wharton