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Appearance Quotes
"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
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"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance."
33
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."
23
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
21
"My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small."
21
"She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses."
10
"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
8
"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."
8
"When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered."
7
"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
7
"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
6
"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many."
6
"But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup."
6
"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly."
5
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
5
"In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same."
5
"Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance."
5
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
5
"After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected."
5
"When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance."
5
"Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."
5
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."
5
"To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't."
5
"There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me."
5
"It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis."
5
"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."
5
"We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves."
5
"She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine."
5
"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
4
"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
4
"No matter your age, a smile makes you look and feel better. People spend billions of dollars every year to get pumped, pulled, tucked, and tweaked in hopes of being more beautiful. But there is nothing like a genuine smile to transform your appearance and provide an instant facelift."
4
"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."
4
"They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse."
4
"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."
4
"Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote."
4
"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
4
"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."
4
"Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality."
4
"Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling."
4
"I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful."
4
"My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman."
4
"I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off."
4
"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
3
"The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature."
3
"I see a little better grooming. Some might even be trying a little powder."
3
"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."
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