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Appearance Quotes


"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."


"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."


"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."


"Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance."


"A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly."


"Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions."


"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."


"I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it."



"We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years."


"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand."


"I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements."


"In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same."


"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech."


"Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers."


"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all."


"Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance."


"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."


"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."


"Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady."


"My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart."


"Everybody looks at his clothes to see what he's wearing."


"Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems."


"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."


"The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly."


"She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue."


"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."


"There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element."


"Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign."


"It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis."


"The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance."



"Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often."


"I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not."


"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small."


"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."


"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."


"For crissakes, you're the frickin' poster boy for DarkRiver with your 'Gee, shucks, I'm harmless' act."Dorian was used to being ribbed about his looks. With his blond hair and blue eyes, he looked more like a surfer hanging out for the right wave than blooded DarkRiver sentinel."Look who's talking, Miss Bikini Babe 2067."


"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."


"One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him."


"I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self."


"On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement."


"I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful."


"As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."


"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."


"I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire."


"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."


"Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball."


"Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them."


"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
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