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Quotes About Appearance

I saw young Harry, with his beaver on.
~ William Shakespeare
Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
~ William Shakespeare
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
~ William Shakespeare
If ladies be but young and fair,They have the gift to know it.
~ William Shakespeare
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
~ William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red:If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
~ William Shakespeare
How should I your true love knowFrom another one?By his cockle hat and staff,And his sandal shoon.
~ William Shakespeare
This is the very false gallop of verses.
~ William Shakespeare
How much more elder art thou than thy looks!
~ William Shakespeare
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,The observ'd of all observers!
~ William Shakespeare
She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.
~ William Shakespeare
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,And these are of them.
~ William Shakespeare
His face is the worst thing about him.
~ William Shakespeare
All that glitters is not gold.
~ William Shakespeare
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
~ William Shakespeare
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
~ William Shakespeare
Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.
~ William Shakespeare
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
~ William Shakespeare
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
~ William Shakespeare
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
~ William Shenstone
The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
~ William Somerset Maugham
His mother was ugly and his father was ugly, but Shrek was uglier than the two of them put together. By the time he toddled, Shrek could spit flame a full ninety-nine yards and vent smoke from either ear.
~ William Steig
Some are obviously living in bondage. Others give the appearance that they have overcome such problems. But the fact remains that even if it is not apparent in a person's outward behavior, this is the true state of all our hearts.
~ William Wilberforce
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
~ William Wycherley