top of page

Appearance Quotes

GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."
Kahlil Gibran
"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
35
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
James Kirkwood
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
34
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball."
Andrew Vachss
"Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
34
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Douglas Bader
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
31
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful."
Norman Hartnell
"I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
31
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."
Malcolm De Chazal
"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
30
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour."
David Low
"Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
29
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance."
Joe Abercrombie
"A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
29
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!""
P. G. Wodehouse
"He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!""
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
28
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."
William Shakespeare
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
27
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather."
William Hamilton
"Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
27
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Beauty can be treacherous."
George R. R. Martin
"Beauty can be treacherous."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
26
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Kami Garcia
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
26
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Don't look my appearance,my lookMy Soul has a beautiful Grave."
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
"Don't look my appearance,my lookMy Soul has a beautiful Grave."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
25
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self."
Mainbocher
"I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
25
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm."
Edgar Saltus
"A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
25
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
Jane Austen
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
24
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
Thomas Hardy
"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
24
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs, some wear one to conceal their age."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs, some wear one to conceal their age."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
23
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"
Idries Shah
"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
23
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things."
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
23
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Few places are more important for dressing appropriately than the workplace, where a professional appearance is crucial."
Susan C. Young
"Few places are more important for dressing appropriately than the workplace, where a professional appearance is crucial."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
22
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Sarah Addison Allen
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
22
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Israelmore Ayivor
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
22
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Toba Beta
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
22
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"You're never fully dressed without a smile."
Martin Charnin
"You're never fully dressed without a smile."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
22
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Thomm Quackenbush
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
21
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Margaret Atwood
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
21
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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??"
Deyth Banger
"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??"
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
21
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Anne Lamott
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
20
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Criticism of one's appearance hurts, no matter what."
Auliq Ice
"Criticism of one's appearance hurts, no matter what."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
20
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Some women are good-looking - until they change their hairstyle."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Some women are good-looking - until they change their hairstyle."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
20
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends."
Sara Sheridan
"The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
20
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
Marcus Aurelius
"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
20
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."
Mason Cooley
"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
20
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Aldous Huxley
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
20
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
20
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles."
Germaine Greer
"The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
20
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Thomas Hardy
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
19
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Anne Lamott
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
19
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Suffering is sometimes cleansing, said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. "It can purify.""It can also fuck you up, said Shadow."
Neil Gaiman
"Suffering is sometimes cleansing, said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. "It can purify.""It can also fuck you up, said Shadow."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
19
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
19
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Susan C. Young
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
18
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman."
William Shakespeare
"Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
18
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Rick Riordan
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
18
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."
George R. R. Martin
"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
18
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Rick Riordan
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
John Green
"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
GettyImages-1390397976_b_edited.jpg
"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."
Lisa Kleypas
"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."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
17
bottom of page