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Appearance Quotes
"I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self."
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"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
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"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."
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"Few places are more important for dressing appropriately than the workplace, where a professional appearance is crucial."
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"Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner."
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"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."
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"A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm."
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"Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather."
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"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."
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"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."
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"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."
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"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."
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"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."
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"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."
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"He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!""
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"Many a time, you may not even have to speak, however difficult the situation; your goatee speaks for you."
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"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."
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"Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately."
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"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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"If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained."
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"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
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"Beauty can be treacherous."
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"Some women are good-looking - until they change their hairstyle."
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"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."
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"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."
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"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things."
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"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."
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"Suffering is sometimes cleansing, said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. "It can purify.""It can also fuck you up, said Shadow."
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"A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing."
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"Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man's last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with."
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"All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was."
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"In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness."
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"Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman."
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"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."
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"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"
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"A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired."
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"The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?"
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"An important part of dressing for success is not only wearing something well but making sure it is appropriate for the occasion or the environment."
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"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."
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"Don't look my appearance,my lookMy Soul has a beautiful Grave."
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"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."
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"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."
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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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"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."
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"Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well."
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"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
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