Appearance Quotes

Beautiful toes are an addition to a woman’s appearance.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

~ Chris Campanioni

The gaze of others is quite without indulgence for our defects and that of Mantegna is pitiless. I am grateful to him. Harshness, in the realm of the arts, is a virtue, and it is sometimes a good thing to see oneself as one is. My stupor, however, comes from the fact that people recognise me where I myself seem to see a stranger. This leads one to meditate more deeply on the matter. Are they dwelling on my superficial appearance rather than on what I really am? Who can say?

~ Marie Ferranti

It’s a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.

~ Kōbō Abe

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you.I said, She never has.

~ Dean Koontz

Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

~ William Shakespeare

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.

~ Nadja Sam

A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.

~ Elizabeth George

When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.

~ Steve Maraboli

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

~ Criss Jami

A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living—in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Rejection makes you uglier, acceptance makes you, all the more, good-looking!

~ Kamini Arichandran

Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it.

~ Raheel Farooq

It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.

~ 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.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The man who carries a parcel is anxious not to lose it -- he is parcel-conscious. The man who cherishes the feeling 'I am' is self-conscious. The jnani holds on to nothing and cannot be said to be conscious. And yet he is not unconscious. He is the very heart of awareness. We call him digambara clothed in space, the Naked One, beyond all appearance. There is no name and shape under which he may be said to exist, yet he is the only one that truly is.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

~ Connie Willis

Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

The way you dress is how you greet the sun and other stars.

~ Kamand Kojouri

She looked for any sign of the boy who'd taught her to whistle a hornpipe, who could palm an ace of hearts and make it reappear from her sleeve, but failed to find even a glimmer of him. Instead she saw Ida taking on a second life in the features of her only son, and for a quick heartbeat Jo was almost grateful for the scar tissue dimpled across her cheek, forehead, and chin. No one would ever be able to invade her face, she realized. She would always simply be herself, whether she liked it or not.

~ Tiffany Baker

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

~ Chelsea Handler

The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.

~ Mihail Sebastian

How you identify or what you prefer in the bedroom does not define your goals, dreams or interests, and has no baring on who you are as a human being, You don’t need to dress or behave a certain way because of your sexual orientation if you don’t want to. Trust that there are groups and resources out there that will support you no matter what. I know that I certainly appreciate all of my fans equally!

~ Natasha Negovanlis

(One character on another:)Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

She was endowed with great beauty for all those attributes that were outside her control, but it was said that in all characteristics for which she herself was responsible, she was utterly wicked

~ Anonymous

Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More

~ Karen Swallow Prior

His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.

~ Juliet Marillier

We all line up except for this guy in a wheelchair, Devyn. He smiles at me when I line up, introduces himself. He has a movie star smile, just white teeth and charisma, big eyes, dark skin. He’d be perfect looking if he didn’t have such a large nose, but the truth is it looks good on him, natural and powerful. He winks at Issie, who blushes.“You can do it, Is,” he says.She rolls her eyes, twists her lip, and says, “As long as I don’t pass out.”“If you pass out, I’ll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line,” he says, and it somehow isn’t sleazy because you can tell by his eyes how much he cares about Issie. I instantly like him.She blushes worse. Her face looks like she’s already sprinted a mile.

~ Carrie Jones

The entire room turns and stares. There’s no doubt what they see—ripped jeans, a black T-shirt, tattoos and earrings. I don’t care what they see. All I care about is what she sees: a person unwelcomed or the guy she

~ Katie Mcgarry

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

People care much more for how things look than how things are.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

To lose weight, spend time at the gym. To appear like you’ve lost weight, spend time with people who are bigger than you.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

~ Torey L. Hayden

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

~ Sara Sheridan