Quotes About Appearance

But he felt too confident in Catherine's beautiful nature to be afraid of Ned. Catherine, who loved beauty, who was so much moved by it—witness her rapt face at The Immortal Hour—would never listen to blandishments from anyone with Ned's nose. Besides, Ned was elderly. In spite of the fur rug up to his chin, Christopher had seen that all right. He was an elderly, puffy man. Elderliness and love! He grinned to himself. If only the elderly could see themselves….

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

Otros niños también llegaban, que se conocían y no, niños lindos y no, desenvueltos y no, allí todo el mundo rivalizaba en belleza, en calidad, en todo lo que se podía rivalizar frente a la puerta de los Lastarria y era un poquito como si todo el mundo se estuviera odiando.

For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance;

the populations being discussed as 'Muslims' were already racialized as 'Pakis' and 'Arabs'. So the point about whether Muslims are a race or not is somewhat beside the point. 'Muslims' have only appeared in the frame of 'race' after they had already put in an appearance in the framework of racialization, but under another guise, before they themselves began to assert the Islamic aspect of their identities,

You never stop being yourself on the inside, whatever age people think you are by looking at you from the outside.

He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I'd ever seen in my life.

Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.

Friends are always pretty, even when they're not.

The surface of things is a lie, and everybody who sees the hoarding for what they are knows it.

The surface of things is a lie, and everybody who sees the hoardings for what they are knows it.

Je houdt nooit op jezelf te zijn vanbinnen, hoe oud mensen ook denken dat je bent als ze vanbuiten naar je kijken.

Hello Mr. Gluck, she'll say if he does. Sorry I'm late. I was having my face measured and rejected for being the wrong specification.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

I don't feel like I am where you are; I'm not in the world except by appearance.

I do wish [Calvin Coolidge] did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Love is...' he paused and then laughed. 'Love is like an armchair cover. It hides a multitude of sins. It's washable and may well have a riot of roses and auriculas splashed over it, but underneath everything is all ripped up.

Art is supposed to make you feel something, and I began to realize my appearance was my art. My body, my face, my scars told a story—my story. But I guess that's how life works sometimes—noticing beauty only in retrospect and poetry, in silence.

Ja, ze lijkt ouder dan ze is.' Je moest eens weten, dacht Claire met een grimmig glimlachje.

Earlier, watching her apply mascara with ritual concentration, he'd wondered just how beautiful a woman had to be before she believed it.

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

She reminds me of my old self—the amount of work it took: the manicures and the spray tans and the designer dresses and shoes—just to look "presentable" for a job at a country lifestyle magazine that was mostly coupons,

Virginia and Vanessa were often thought scruffy. Vanessa rapidly decided that untidiness and dirt were infinitely preferable to being 'a Town Lady'; the writer Rebecca West thought Virginia always looked as if she had been pulled through a hedge backwards.