Quotes About Appearance

Enid had chosen to believe the promise of his looks. Life then became a matter of waiting for his personality to change.

Eso es muy superficial. - No se puede ser profundo sin superficie.

He didn't hide his teeth, which were bright yellow, like the van we'd unloaded.

You can't be deep without a surface.

People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

I have made efforts to make you appear as a person with less anxiety, as you have commanded me to do on so many occasions. This is difficult to achieve, because in truth you are a person with very much anxiety. Perhaps you should be a drug user.

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

She was incredibly beautiful, with a face like Mom's, which seemed like it was smiling even when she wasn't smiling, and huge boobs.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable.

He wanted her to be as well dressed as the richest lady in Ilhéus; fine clothes would erase her past and hide the stove burns of her arms. But the fine clothes rarely left the closet

He walked against the florid banners of the fire. And the fire did not bite his flesh but caressed and engulfed him without heat or combustion. With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he, too, was all appearance, that someone else was dreaming him.

In the vestibule there is a mirror, which faithfully duplicates appearances. Men often infer from this mirror that the Library is not infinite - if it were, what need would there be for that illusory replication? I prefer to dream that burnished surfaces are a figuration and promise of the infinite.

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.

La imagen interior del hombre no debe confundirse con su atuendo.

It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

The believer's greatest argument is his face. True religion lights up the face; false religion fills it with insecurity, rage and suspicion. This is perceptible not only to insiders (Muslims), but to anyone.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

The observer, that old record keeper, the chronicler of events, made his appearance in that taxi. The hands of my clock turned elastic while I imprinted these feelings in memory. You must remember this. It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

All well — from the neck down.