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Appearance Quotes


"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


"Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour."


"A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance."


"He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!""


"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."


"Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather."


"Beauty can be treacherous."


"She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget."


"Don't look my appearance,my lookMy Soul has a beautiful Grave."



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


"A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm."


"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."



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


"Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs, some wear one to conceal their age."



"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"


"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things."


"Few places are more important for dressing appropriately than the workplace, where a professional appearance is crucial."


"Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far - off, happy place."


"Don't rush to design your face to look beautiful, attractive and charming. Rather, be quicker to decorate your mind to appear as goal-oriented, passion-embedded and action-driven."


"Some people say, 'Do not judge the book by its cover!' Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter."


"Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic."


"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."


"What's make you think that people will other type of clothes are special??I can go to the shop buy such clothes and what??? Now I am important??"


"For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms."


"Some women are good-looking - until they change their hairstyle."



"The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends."


"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."


"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."


"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen."



"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."


"The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles."



"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."


"Most of us don't notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights-way before the neckular deterioration began, way before the fanny pack of menopause-and I could see how gorgeous I must have looked to everyone else."


"Suffering is sometimes cleansing, said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. "It can purify.""It can also fuck you up, said Shadow."


"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."


"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."


"Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman."



"Travis: I didn't know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month.Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek.Travis: You are a geek."


"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."



"You guys are so... dark. Even if I used flash, I'm not sure it would come out.""Y-yeah," Percy managed. "You guys aren't photogenic."


"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."


"What would it be like to live as a butterfly, being admired by the world for your color and beauty and grace? What would it be like to live as a spider, having people shriek and jump and throw a shoe at the very notice of you?I have tasted both-looks of desire and repulsion.How sad it is that we judge a life by such a trivial thing as appearance."


"Sukey's approving glance swept over Amanda's black evening dress, made of shimmering crinkled silk that had been cut very low across the bosom and fitted tightly to her voluptuous shape. Rows of glittering jet beads adorned the bodice and long sleeves, while her gloves and shoes were of soft chamois leather. It was a sophisticated ensemble, one that made the most of Amanda's looks and generously displayed her bosom."
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