Quotes About Appearance

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

Not your appearance, but your humility and power of love define your beauty.

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.

Things are seldom what they seem.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Everything that gristles is not gold.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;Filths savor but themselves.

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

And give to dust that is a little giltMore laud than gilt o'er-dusted.

O thou weed!Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born.

And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,And seem a saint when most I play the devil.

Fie, fie upon her!There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look outAt every joint and motive of her body.

There's no artTo find the mind's construction in the face:He was a gentleman on whom I builtAn absolute trust.

Bid them wash their faces,And keep their teeth clean.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.

He was indeed the glassWherein the noble youth did dress themselves.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show:False face must hide what the false heart doth know.