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Appearance Quotes


"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."


"Many a time, you may not even have to speak, however difficult the situation; your goatee speaks for you."


"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 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."


"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."


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


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



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


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


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."


"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."


"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."


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


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


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



"Beauty can be treacherous."


"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."


"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."


"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."


"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??"


"Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man's last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with."


"If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained."


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


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



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


"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."


"Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?"


"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."


"A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing."



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


"All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was."


"In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness."


"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."


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


"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."


"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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